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INTRODUCTORY
The mission of the historian is to chronicle things and events as he finds
them, and preserve them according to the fact, rather than to g^ve to history the
coloring he thinks it ought to have. The recording of the organization, prc^fress
and condition of the county, commercially, socially, religiously, educationally and
politically, past and present, is not a matter of interest and value for the present
generation alone; future generations will peruse these pages to learn of the
past, and from force of circumstances, will be compelled to accept the facts
herein presented, as matters of undisputed historic reference. To gather and
transcribe the data of this volume in the short space of six months, has been a
large undertaking, and what has been accomplished in that period of time, will
be disclosed in the pages of this history.
The History of Jones County, published in 1879, has been of valuable assist-
ance in compiling this volume, and its pages have been freely used in this history
so far as applicable. The cheerful assistance rendered the editor by those
solicited for information and contributions, forms one of the most delightful
memories of this task. To meet these people in their homes, in their places of
business, and on the street and highway, and secure their hearty cooperation in
making this work a success, has been one of the most enjoyable features of the
labors we were called upon to perform. The friendships formed, the coopera-
tion manifest, the appreciation expressed, and the satisfaction experienced in
securing a history of our home county, have been encouraging features in the role
as historian.
We gladly express our grateful appreciation of the encouragement, support
and assistance of the several members of the Advisory Board, namely, J. W.
Doxsee, Mary Calkins Chassell, Christina Scroggie and T. E. Booth. Special
recognition and acknowledgement should also be made of the generous and able
services of Mr. J. E. Remley, of Anamosa, in writing the Fairview township
liistory ; of the valuable and willing assistance of S. J. Rice of Scotch Grove, in
securing historical data in Scotch Grove township; of the kindness of Ervin E.
Reed of Monticello in contributing a chapter on the topography of the county;
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of Frank Kenney of the Oxford Mirror ; of A. A. Cole of the Olin Recorder ;
Mrs. W. B. Brock, D. E. Rummel, Mrs. F. W. Port, K. T. Lamb, L. M. Car-
penter and others at Olin ; C. H. Brown and others of Martelle ; S. S. Farwell,
H. M. Carpenter, R. C. Stirton, G. W. Lovell, several ladies of the Friday Club,
and others of Monticello; William Stingley, J. E. Coder, Frank Jones, M. O.
Felton, T. Dawson and others of Center Junction ; the several township and town
clerks; the various ministers of the churches; the secretaries of the fraternal
and other organizations ; the bank officers and the several county and other pub-
lic officials ; the early settlers, and the many whose information, suggestions and
contributions have added to the value and accuracy of this history.
It is indeed a matter of regret that the county, township and town records,
generally, have been found incomplete. In many instances, the earlier records
of the townships have been more full and complete with official information than
the later records. A school of instruction for town and township clerks in the
matter of keeping the proper record of official meetings would be profitable.
Some of the records, however, had the minutes of official action properly re-
corded, and are models for neatness and accuracy of statement. The earlier
county records, on the other hand, have lacked system and connection. But this
is past. The present records of the county are models in system, accuracy and
completeness, and under the present county officials, especially the county audi-
tor and the clerk of the district court, the records are becoming more complete
and accurate.
A careful reading of the pages of this volume can only deepen the respect
of the reader for those early pioneers, who by their untiring energy, devotion
and sacrifices, have made possible the civilization, prosperity and enlighten-
ment of the present day. The reader will note with an increasing interest, the
gradual development of the country from the imbroken forests, unturned prairies
and primitive cabins, to the broad acres of rich cultivated fields, improved farms,
and comfortable homes of today. The men and women of the early days were
distinctive institutions, each in his and her own sphere and community, battling
for some ideal, representing some principle, and laying the foundations for the
present prosperity and advantages. Posterity can well afford to be magnani-
mous, and the heart may well swell with pride and reverence for the hardy and
sacrificing pioneers, whose heritage is now enjoyed. Indeed, in the language of
the prospectus, we can say this history "is an effort to rescue from oblivion the
deeds of ancestors and the early pioneers, the causes of prosperity and greatness,
and the character of the average men who have achieved success and made
famous our industries and institutions." The present institutions of learning
and industry, the numerous schools and churches, the general intelligence and
moral standards of the people and their general prosperity, all have been builded
on the foundations laid by our ancestors, and are silent monuments and tributes
of praise to the character, influence and enthusiasm of the noble-hearted pioneers
and their children.
This work is dedicated and presented to the many good people of Jones
county with the hope that it will be appreciated, that it will be found of llarge
value as a history of the county, its people and its institutions, past and present,
and that those who have aided in making this undertaking a success, will find a
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satisfaction for their kind services which will be to them of richer value and
higher compensation than the words of thanks and appreciation spoken by the
editor.
The next generation will accord to this work, even a higher estimate of value
than the generation of today. The highest sources of information, the pioneers
themselves, are rapidly passing to other rewards. Very few remain to tell the
story of privation, endurance and romance. The history of the county was largely
made when the pioneers were in the prime of life. Their written experiences,
and the story of life, organization and industry as told by their lips, and recorded
in these pages, are more valuable and reliable than tradition. This work is to
save for posterity, the true history of the county with its beginnings, its growth
and its prosperity.
This history will be published in two volumes. The first volume is history;
ihe second, personal biography ; the editor has had supervision of the first volume
only. R. M. Corbit.
Wyoming, Iowa, November i, 1909.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
JONES COUNTY.
PAGE
EJarly Settlement 28
Infant Pioneers 24
Some First Things In Jones Ctounty 25
Historic Setting of Jones Connty 26
Political Organization of tlie Ck>unty 2T
First Election of Ctounty Officers 28
Some Early Commissioner's Records 29
Election Precincts 80
Organization of Townships 81
The Topography of Jones County 88
Tornado History 42
Barthqnake History 44
Flood History 46
State and Federal Officers from Jones County 49
Jones County in the Legislature 49
In the Territorial Council 00
State Senators BO
State R^resentatiyes flO
County Officers Bl
Commissioners .' 51
Supervisors 52
Clerks of Commissioner's Court 64
Clerks District Court 54
Sheriffs 54
Recorders 54
Treasurers 54
Auditors 55
County Superintendents 55
County Attorneys 55
Coroners 55
Surveyors 55
County Organization, 1909 56
County Expenses, 1865 69
County Expenses, 1878 69
County Expenses, 1895 60
County Expenses, 1908 61
County Expenses, by years since 1880 62
County Assessment by Townships, 1864 68
County Assessment by Townships, 1879 64
County Assessment by Townships, 1896 66
County Assessments by Townships, 1909 66
Comparative Table of Property Valuations, '61 to '09 , . . . 66
Growth and Development of Jones County Population 67
Comparative Population by Townships, 1860-1905 67
Crop and Produce Statistics 68
Tax Levies for 1909 68
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County Seat Questions 70
The Courthouse !..!.!! 72
Some Improvements [ ...!.... 74
Educational ...!... 74
Cass Township Schools and Teachers .....!.. 76
Castle Grove Schools and Teachers 76
Clay Township Schools and Teachers 76
Falrvlew Township Schools and Teachers 76
Greenfield Township Schools and Teachers 76
Hale Township Schools and Teachers 76
Jackson Township Schools and Teachers [ 77
Lovell Township Schools and Teachers 77
Madison Township Schools and Teachers 77
Oxford Township Schools and Teachers 77
Richland Township Schools and Teachers 77
Rome Township Schools and Teachers 77
Scotch Grove Township Schools and Teachers 77
Waynp Township Schools and Teachers 78
Washington Township Schools and Teachers 78
Wyoming Township Schools and Teachers ! 78
Town Graded, Schools and Teachers 79
Political Status of Jones County 80
Election Returns, 1876-1908 82
Early Marriages and Marriage Licenses, 1839-1856 83
Early Dairying 90
Odds and Ends 92
M. E. Appointments, 1874 92
Petit Jurors, December, 1867 92
Montlcello Markets, June 20, 1867 92
Wyoming Markets. October 1, 1909 92
Abstract of Real and Personal Property, 1867 93
School Census and Apportionment, 1867 93
Status of Air Ship Navigation, August, 1909 98
The North Pole (J5
Republican Convention, 1868 95
Jones County Medical Society 96
Jones County Farmer's Institute 97
Jones County Sunday School Association 98
Jones County Good Roads Association 99
Jones County Old Settler's Association 99
Lynch Law and the Vigilance Committee 102
The County Farm 103
The Judiciary 105
The First Court 106
The Courts— County, Circuit and District 107
The Jones County Bar Association 109
Jones County Attorneys, 1909 109
Meteorological and Climatology Tables, Jones County 109
Maximum and Minimum Temperature, 1854 to 1909 110
Monthly and Annual Rain and Snow in inches 113
Earliest and Latest Frost, 1850 to 1909 114
Monthly and Annual Quantities of Snow in inches 115
Civil War History 116
Events Leading up to War 116
Union Meeting 117
Resolutions by Board of Supervisors, June, 1861 121
Patriotic Meeting in Rome 122
The County 4th of July Celebration 122
Incidents of Enlistment 123
First Company of Volunteers 124
Grand Turn-Out of Military and CltizenB 125
Flag Presentation and D^arture 127
Farewell Supper 129
Sanitary Commission 129
Flag Presentation by Boston Ladles 180
Another Offering from Jones County 132
The Draft 182
The Flag of the Ninth Iowa 138
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Washington's Birthday at Anamoea, 1864 138
The Fourteenth Iowa Infantry * 135
Re-Unlon at MonticeUo, August 14, 1865 !..!.!! !l86
Col. Wm. T. Shaw of Anamosa .* 137
Soldier's Memento— Left-Hand Writing !!'.188
History of Co. B, 9th Iowa 141
History of Co. H, 81st Iowa ! 144
History of the 24th Iowa .149
Volunteer Roster * .' . ,151
List of Soldiers In Jones County In 1886 .182
The Spanish War I93
Banks and Banking '. * . .194
Aggregate Deposits, Capital and Assets !l94
The Onslow Savings Bank 195
The Montlcello State Bank ! 196
The Lovell State Bank, Montlcello 197
The Oxford Junction Savings Bank 198
The Citizens Exchange Bank, Oxford Junction 199
The Citizens Savings Bank, Olin I99
The First National Bank, Olin 200
The Farmers Savings Bank, Martelle 201
The Citizens Savings Bank, Anamosa 202
NUes & Wattars Savings Bank, Anamosa 203
The Anamosa National Bank .204
The First National Bank, Wyoming 205
The Citizens Bank, Wyoming 206
Ballroads 207
Mileage and Assessed Valuation per mile 216
The Jones County Calf Case 216
The Catholic Churches in Jones County « 219
Catholicity in Anamosa 228
St. Joseph's Parish, Stone City 240
Catholic Church in Montlcello 242
Catholicity in Castle Grove 246
Catholic Church in Oxford Junction 254
CASS TOWNSHIP.
Early Settlement 255
The Schools 256
Cass Congregational Church 256
Official Township Roster 269
CASTLE GROVE TOWNSHIP.
The Early Settl^nent 261
Some Early Pioneers 262
The Postofflces ; . .262
The Mill 268
The Schools 263
Downerville Co-Operatlve Creamery Company 263
Castle Grove Mutual Tel^hone Company 264
Farmer's Mutual Insurance Association 264
Penlel Presbyterian Church 265
The Evangelical Church 266
Castle Grove Baptist Church 266
The German Lutheran Church 269
Official Township Roster 269
CLAY TOWNSHIP.
An Honored Resident and Pioneer 273
Early Settlement and History 274
Clay Mills 276
Clay Mills Postofflce 276
Other Mill History 275
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The Creameries 276
The Jamee Hall Creamery .,,,,.[ !276
The Carpenter Creamery ] ] .276
The Bader Creamery ' .277
The Clay Co-Operative Creamery '. 277
Clayford, location and PostoflQce !278
Free- Will Baptist Church 278
Bethel Presbyterian Church ! ] . .279
Latter Day Saints Chapel ' '28I
The Village of Canton ...,. .282
The Mill and Other Business Interests [, ,2S2
The Canton Postoffice [ 284
Official Roster Clay Township *. *284
FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP.
General Conditions 287
1909 Assessment 288
Comparative Market Prices 288
Early Settlement of Anamosa and Township 291
Mrs. Peet's Letter, 1842 293
Wild Game in Fairview Township 295
The First Postoffice 297
Anamosa 299
The County Seat .300
Business Interests 804
Anamosa Water Works 305
Mercantile and Commercial 305
Strawberry Hill 305
Anamosa Incorporated 306
A Few Dates of Public Interest 306
Origin of the Name Anamosa 307
Anamosa Postoffice 308
Anamosa Home-Coming, 1909 811
City Officers 814
Churches 816
Fairview Baptist Church 316
Anamosa Baptist Church 317
Congregational Church, Anamosa 319
Presbyterian Church, Anamosa 324
Protestant Episcopal Church, Anamosa 326
Methodist Episcopal Church, Anamosa 326
Protestant Methodist Church 328
Catholic Church 328
Banks 328
Nlles & Watters Savings Bank 328
The Anamosa National Bank 328
Citizens Savings Bank .329
Old Landmark Taken Down 330
A Historical Ball Game 330
Fire Department 332
Fires .333
Anamosa and the Press 336
Iowa State Reformatory 338
Peoples Gas Company 350
Anamosa Fair Association 350
Anamosa Cemetery Association 353
The Grand Army of the Republic 354
Eastern Iowa Veteran Association 356
The Apollo Club 356
Daughters of the American Revolution 357
The Library 3®
Minutes of Council-Library 360
Sanitarium S®
Educational 304
Mystic Workers 366
Modem Woodmen 366
Knights of Pythias 367
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History of Stone City 868
mie Poetofflce, Stone City 368
lU^igious Welfare 868
The Stone QuarrieB 860
GEBENFIBLD TOWNSHIP.
Early Settlement 878
Oflldal Township Roster 874
Tile Town of Martelle 876
The First Merchant 876
The Town Platted 876
Some Early Merchants 876
Some Early Settlers 877
Martelle Incorporated 877
Martelle Official Roster 877
The Postofflce 878
The Creamery 878
Banking 879
The Schools 379
Business Directory, 1909 880
Fraternal Societies, K. P., P. S., M. W. A., R. N. A 881
The Churches 382
The Methodist Church 882
The Christian Church 382
HALE TOWNSHIP.
Barly Settlement 382
Hie Township Organized 388
An Early Industry 888
The Bridge 888
The Village of Hale 884
The Postofflce 384
The Hale Church 885
Hale Business Roster, 1909 885
The Village Platted 885
The Creamery 386
Hale Lodges. M. W. A., R. N. A 386
Pleasant Hill Church 387
Official Roster Hale Township 388
JACKSON TOWNSHIP.
General Conditions 389
The First School 889
The First Settlem«it 389
A Pioneer Family 889
Other Early Families
The Village of Newport
Location of Village 390
The Newport Mills 891
Village of Isbell '. . .891
An Early Mill 391
Cemeteries 891
A Late Spring 391
The Antloch Church 392
Riverside United Brethren Church 392
Official Roster Jackson Township 898
LOVELL TOWNSHIP.
The Township Organized 897
Official Roster Lovell (and Montlcello) Township .898
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MADISON TOWNSHIP.
The Early Settlement 40O
The First Marriage 401
The First Birth 401
The Township Organized 402
The Village of Madison 402
The Postofflce 402
Business Center ; An "Inn" Incidence 402
Township Assessment in 1850 403
A Madison Bear of 1861 404
Official Roster Madison Township 405
Center Junction 408
The First Building 408
Early Mercantile Interests 408
The Village in 1879 409
The Village Fire Visitation 409
The Village Incorporated 409
Water Works Established 409
Business Roster, 1909 410
The Creamery 410
The County Seat Question 410
Center Junction Clay Works 411
The Telephone Company 411
Center Junction Orchestra 411
Center Junction Schools 412
The Center Junction Call 418
The Center Junction Visitor 414
The Churches 414
The Methodist Church 414
The Presbyterian Church .415
Fraternal Societies 416
The K. K. Club 418
Official Roster, Center Junction 418
MONTICELLO TOWNSHIP.
The Township Organized 420
A Prosperous City 420
Death of S. S. Farwell 420
Early History of Montlcello, by M. M. Moulton 421
The First Settier 424
Hop Culture 425
Personal Reminiscences by Mrs. Gallagher 426
The Village of Montlcello Incorporated '^ .438
The Principal Fires 440
The Postoffice 443
John O. Duer Post, G. A. R 444
The Montlcello Schools 444
The Montlcello Press 452
Early Business Men of Montlcello 454
The Montlcello ^Public Li^ ry 450
The Montlcello Library "^ ety 462
The Friday Club .... 463
Club of 1894 464
Young Men's Christian A ation 465
Volunteer Fire Company 465
The Diamond Creamery C >any 465
The Jones County Fair Ass. tlon 467
The Montlcello Union Park A.*soclatlon 468
Jones County Militia Company • • • .469
Montlcello Cemetery Association 470
The Soldier's Monument 473
The Klondyke Creamery 473
History of Banking in Montlcello 474
MonUcello Water Works 475
Montlcello Electric Lights 476
The Hoag Duster Company 477
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Hall-Benedict Manufacturing CJompany 478
Monrtcello Tll^ Factory 478
The Bottling Works [ 479
The Monticello Mills '. . .479
Montlcello Canning Company .* 4S0
Monticello Greenhouses and Nursery 481
The Monticello Cornet Band 481
Monticello Fraternal Societies 481
K. of P 481
M. W. A 482
R. N. A 482
O. 0.0 482
T. L. of H 4?^2
H. G. W 483
M. W. W 483
Rebekahs 483
0. E. S 483
1. O. O. F. No. 117 484
T. O. O. F. No. 43 484
A. O. U. W 484
M. B. A 484
R. A. M., r. D 485
Trinity Commandery 485
Am. Patriots 485
Homesteaders 485
A. F. & A. M 485
The Churches 486
The Congregational Church 486
The Presbyterian Church 487
The German Reformed Church 489
The M. E. Church 489
The Catholic Church 491
The I'nited Brethren Church .492
The Baptist Church 492
The Episcopalian Society 492
The Christian Church 493
The Business and Professional Roster, 1909 493
Official Roster, City of Monticello 494
OXFORD TOWNSHIP.
Location and Organization , 496
The First Settler 497
The First Dwellings 497
The First Child Born 498
The First Wedding 498
The First Religious Service .498
The First Death .498
The Development of the Township 499
Official Township Roster 499
Village of Oxford Mills 500
The Oxford Mill 501
Zinn Electric Light and Power Co .* *U 502
The (^hurch ''^ 502
The Postoffice ' 502
Oxford Junction : 503
Location and General (V)nditions :' '. 503
The Beginning of the Town ^ ; 503
Growth and Development ! ' 503
I>osses and Epidemics '^V* V 504
The Water WorlvS .' 504
The Town Politically 504
The Coumiercial Club 505
A Manufactory 505
The Topaz Creamery 505
The Oxford Mirror 507
Banking 508
The Postoffice 509
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The Public School 509
The Pbilomatheon Club 511
Bohemian Farm Mutual Insurance Company 512
The B. & A. National Band 512
Good Templars Society 512
The Depot and Its Business 513
The Oxford Junction Telephone Company 513
Business Directory, 1909 513
The Churches 514
St. Mary's Church 514
Sacred Heart Church 515
The Methodist Church 510
Kvangelical Lutheran Church 517
Fraternal Societies 518
R. N. A 518
A. F. & A. M 518
M. B. A 518
K. of P 518
O. O. 0 519
Western Bohemian Fraternal Association 519
M. W. A 519
Official Roster, Oxford Junction 520
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP.
Early Settlement 521
The Township Organized .521
An Early Missionary 522
An Incident with Wolves 522
A Pioneer Story 522
The Infant Pioneers 523
Bowen's Prairie 523
Village Platted 523
The Postofflce 623
The Churches 524
The Bowen's Prairie Congregational Church 524
The Methodist (Church 525
German Presbyterian Church 525
The Ross Cheese Factory 525
Historical Sketch of Bowen's Prairie, by Barrett Whittemore 526
A Melancholy Event 528
Some Pioneers 530
A Political Anecdote 531
A Horse Race 532
Political Questions 532
Other Pioneer Settlements 534
Official Roster Richland Township 536
ROME TOWNSHIP.
Early Settlement in General 539
Reminiscences of Rome. 1840-41, by R. J. Cleaveland 540
Incidents of the First Court 542
Early Manners and Customs 543
Uncle Ben Smith 544
Early Law Matters 544
Early County History 546
Early Mall Facilities 548
Early County Seat Problems 548
Early terming Methods 549
The Indians 549
Saw and Grist Mills 550
The Cause of Education 551
An Anecdote 551
Some Early Settlers 552
The First Child 553
The First Burial 563
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A Late Season 553
The Township Organized 553
Olin 554
The Town Platted 554
The People 554
The Postofflce 554
The Depot 555
The Town of Olln Incorporated 555
Official Roster of Olln 557
The First Physician 559
K. T. Lamb, Merchant 559
The Olin School 560
Olin and the Press 563
The Olin Fires 504
Banking 565
Water Works 566
Electric Lights 567
Organizations 567
The Olin Volunteer Fire Company 567
The Olin Cornet Band 567
The Olln Commercial Club 568
Poultry Fanciers' Association 5(J8
The 20th Century Club . . . ; 568
The Olin-Morley Telephone Company 569
The Olin Creamery 569
The Olln Tile and Brick Company 569
Don A. Carpenter Post, G. A. R 569
The Olin College 570
The Olin Cemetery 572
The Ladies' Cemetery Association 573
The Churches 573
Olin United Brethen Church 578
German Lutheran St. John's Church 574
The Advent Church 575
The Christian Church 575
The Methodist Church -. 575
Societies 576
A. F. & A. M 576
I. O. O. F 577
Olin Temperance League 577
A. O. U. W 577
Rebefoas 577
Mystic Workers 577
KnifThts of Pythias 577
I'niform Rank, K. of P 578
M. W. A 578
O. E. S 578
Pythian Sisters 579
R. N. A 579
Business Roster. 1909 579
The Village of Morley 580
The Postofflce 581
The Methodist Church 581
The School 581
Morley Mutual Telephone Company 5.S2
Societies 582
M. W. A. 582
R. N. A. 582
Business Roster, 1909 5S2
Official Roster, Rome Township 583
SCOTCH GROVE TOWNSHIP.
General Conditions 584
The Promised Land Explored 584
Survivors of the First Pioneers 584
Other Pioneers 584
The First Death 586
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Other Immigrants kc«
The Mills ',','.'.[['/,'.'/.'.'.'.'.['.'.[[[[ 586
Scotch Grove Water Supply I .,/,../...,/.,... /,../,[ !5.S8
John E. Lovejoy !....!..!!!!!!! [588
The Schools !....!!!!!.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.! Isiso
Scotch Grove in the Civil War .......!!.!!.!!.!!!!...!!!!. !590
An li^nlistment Incident ...!!!!!!!!.!!!!.. 591
Names of Soldiers Who Enlisted from Scotch Grove ! . . ! . . . '. . . .,/, [591
Names of Soldiers Burled in Scotch Grove Cemetery ] 592
Members of Co. D, Killed or Wounded in Service !5.92
The Soldier's Monument 594
Scotch ( Jrove Village .,....'...'.,..,.....,. 595
Early Village History .595
The Elevator 595
The Store .!!!!.! 595
The Postofflce !595
The Creamery , . .. . .596
Business Roster, 1909 !!!!!!.. 596
The Scotch Grove Nursery !..!... .596
The Village of Johnscm ...!.! ^598
The Johnson Postoffice 598
The Johnson Creamery 598
The "Limner letters" of 1874 ] .599
The (;reat Bear Hunt of 1859 !(;04
The Harvest Home Picnic Society (108
An Early Celebration, July 4, 1867 (K)8
Sorghum and Hops ^08
Scotch Grove Church History (509
The Presbyterian Church 609
The Methodist Church 61 1
The Christian Church 611
Official Roster, Scotch Grove Township 612
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
Location and General Conditions 616
The I'eople 616
Some Early Settlers 616
Temple Hill 619
Temple Hill Catholic Church 619
Official Roster, Washington Township 619
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
General Conditions (521
The Township Organized 621
The First Settler 622
The Growth of the Township (i22
The First Child Born 622
The First School 622
Early Settlers C22
Edinburgh— The County Seat 623
The First Postofflce 624
The Village of Langworthy 624
The Crescent Creamery 624
An Early Cheese Factory 625
The Langworthy Co-Operative Creamery Company 625
Langworthy Postoffice 626
Langworthy M. E. Church 626
Business Roster, 1909 626
The Woodmen 627
The Village of Amber » 627
A Serious Conflagration 627
Business Roster, 1909 627
The M. E. Church 627
Woodmen Ixxlge 628
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Mystic Workers 628
The German Reformed Church ,,.., 628
The Co-operative Creamery Co 628
The Amber Postofflce 629
Wayne German Mutual Insurance Co 629
St. John^s Evangelical Lutheran Church 630
Zion German T^utheran Church 633
Wajnie Presbyterian Church 634
The rnited Presbyterian Church 634
The Jones County Home 635
Official Roster, Wayne Township 635
WYOMING TOWNSHIP.
Dr. M. H. Calkins— A Tribute 640
Early Reminiscences of Wyoming 641
The First Death '.646
The First Preaching Service ]647
The First Marriage 649
The First Sod Plowed 649
The First School House 650
The First Store 650
The Township Organized 650
The First Township Officers 651
The Beginning of Wyoming Village 652
The Schools 655
The Methodist Church 657
The Presbyterian Church 658
The I'nited Presbyterian Church 660
The Baptist Church 661
Some Organizations 661
United Presbyterian Church 667
The Methodist Church 670
The Presbyterian Church 671
The German Lutheran Church 673
South Mineral M. E. Church 674
A Curiosity 67i
Steam Mill Corners 674
Official Roster, Wyoming Township 675
The Town of Wyoming Incorporated 677
Its Growth 677
The Mayor 677
The Indebtedness 678
The Oi)era House 678
The Town Platted 678
Some First Things in Wyoming 678
The Postoffice 679
The Public Schools 680
Course of Study 684
Graduates 684
The Alumni Association 686
The Depot 687
History of Banks in.Wyoming 687
First Memorial Day in Wyoming 688
History of Dairy Interests 689
Co-oi)erative Creamery Association 690
Wyoming Cemetery Association 691
The Soldiers* Monument 692
Ben Paul Post, G. A. R 692
Ben Paul Post, W. R. C 693
Fire Department 694
Wyoming Telephone Company 695
Bear Creek Valley Telephone Company 696
Destruction by Fires 696
Water Works 697
Wyoming Electric Lights 698
Bay View Historical Club 699
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Hawthorne Club 099
The Wyoming Cornet Band 701
Wyoming Civic League 702
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Settlement 702
Wyoming and the Press 708
The Historic Oak 710
A Reminiscence 713
Roll of Co. K 714
Pioneer Women 715
Miss Julia McClure— A Tribute 718
Some Wyoming Doings of 1874 718
Hartson Buckle Attachment Co 719
Potter Canning Company 720
Fraternal Orders 720
A. F. & A. M 720
I. O. O. F 721
Mystic Workers 721
A. O. U. W 721
0. i:. S 721
R. N. A 722
M. W. A. 722
Highland Nobles 722
C. C. C 723
1. L. of H 723
K. & L. of G. P 723
Business Roster, 1909 723
Official Roster, Wyoming 725
The Town of Onslow 728
Onslow in 1872 729
The Onslow Visitor 729
The Fire Record 730
The Village Incorporated 731
Business Roster, 1909 731
The Postofflce 732
The Onslow Cheese Factory 732
The Onslow Savings Bank 733
The Depot 733
The Onslow School 734
Onslow Presbyterian Church 736
The Catholic Church 737
The Methodist Church 737
Onslow Mutual Telephone Company 738
The Priscilla Club 738
Fraternal Orders 7.^
I. O. O. F 739
Rebeccas J5?
M. W. A l^
R. N. A l^
Mystic Workers ]^
Am. Patriots l^
I. L. of H 740
Good Templars |L^
Musical Organizations 7^
Official Roster, Onslow 74U
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EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The first white settler in Jones county was Hugh Bowen who settled in
Richland township in the year 1836. As "all roads lead to Rome," so all roads
to the spot where the first white man called home, will lead to a locality south
and east of Bowen's Prairie. A short sketch of the life of this historic man
would be appropriate in these pages, but the records are unkind, and will reveal
but little of the career of Hugh Bowen. R. J. Cleaveland in his "Reminiscences
of Rome/' given on another page of this volume, states something in regard to
the character and personality of the man.
Tradition also states that Jones county is entitled to the distinction of includ-
ing the territory in which the Black Hawk war ended in 1833. The *' Annals of
Iowa/' however, add no light on the subject. As handed down to the present
generation, the story goes that the Black Hawk Indians were pursued by the
American army, of which Lieutenant Jefferson Davis of the regular army, and
Abraham Lincoln, an officer in the service of the Illinois militia, were m com-
mand. The Indians were chased to the banks of the Maquoketa river, at a point
on the southern border of Richland township, called Dale's Ford. Here the
Indians took their stand. The river was high and the current swift. While oner
half of the Indian warriors took their stand in defence, the other half crossed the
raging torrent on improvised canoes, and these in turn, maintained a defence
while the others crossed the stream. When all had crossed the river, they turned
and fled through the brush and timber. The American army, not caring to
plunge their horses into the swift, flowing and turbulent waters, and believing
the Indians were too exhausted to continue their depredations, turned back;
and the Indians were not heard from again. This military strategy on the part
of the Indians, as g^ven by tradition is worthy of praise and of being written in
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story and in song. We are unable to find any authentic record of this traditional
fact of history.
Much has been written of the heroism of the pioneers of Jones county, and
of the wealth of character, and richness of possessions that has descended to
posterity. To all this glory, the pioneer who has blazed the way to the civiliza-
tion, settlement and enrichment of Jones county, is fully entitled. The men and
women of the early day, from the viewpoint of this age, were institutions of
greatness. Through them the hidden resources of the county have been de-
veloped, the character of the people moulded, and life and living made to shine
with a bright reality.
Jones county will compare with her sister counties very favorably. In the
moral tone and industrial prosperity of its inhabitants, it will stand second to
none in the state. Its prosperous homes and improved farms, speak of the fer-
tility of its soil and proclaim the culture of its people ; its numerous schools and
churches tell in glowing terms of the attention given to the development of mind,
and the strength of manhood and Christian character.
THE INFANT PIONEERS.
The first white child to begin life in Jones county, was Miss Rebecca Merritt,
who was born about two miles west of the present site of Olin, January 5,
1839. This promising maiden thrived and prospered on the milk and honey
which flowed in the promised land of her birth, and at the age of fifteen, she
became the bride of Joseph Merritt, her cousin. This matrimonial event is
shown by the records of this county to have taken place in March, 1853. Mrs.
Rebecca Merritt is now living at Sturgis, South Dakota.
The second child to begin life in Jones county, was a boy, James McLaughlin,
a son of James and Mary McLaughlin. This historic youth was born on what
is now known as the Lovell farm, in section 2 of Wayne township, on May 31,
1839. Mr. McLaughlin is yet numbered among the inhabitants of earth, and
resides at Russellville, Kentucky.
Miss Mary Moore, the first child of William and Alvira Neal Moore, stands
third in the baby roll of honor in the county. Her birth dates from April 10,
1840. Richland township claims the honor of her birth. On January 15, 1861,
she took unto herself a husband in the person of Thomas A. King. Mr. and Mrs.
King reside in Jones county, and have the oversight of the welfare of the county's
unfortunate poor in the county home.
Child number four was Miss Lucretia Bowen, a niece of Hugh Bowen. She
was born April 22, 1840. Her life was short, and when about two years of age,
she was carried on angeKs wings to the mansions in the babyland of heaven.
Infant number five in the pioneer roll, was John D. Sullivan, a son of John
and Margaret Sullivan, who was born in Richland township, October 29, 1840.
This baby boy grew to manhood in time to offer his services in behalf of his
native country, and entering the army in 1864, became a member of Company C,
Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Sullivan is now one of the highly respected
residents of Cascade.
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There is some information available to the effect that Martha Ann Dickson
is entitled to have her name enrolled among the pioneer infants of Jones county
as having begun her life work in Richland township in the year 1839 or early in
the year 1840. We have been unable to substantiate this information.
In the early history of Monticello, given elsewhere in this volume from the
pen of M. M. Moulton, reference is made to the birth of twins in the family of
Mr. Richard South in Richland township in 1839. This statement is not in har-
mony with our investigations. F. M. South, now living in Dubuque, states that
he was the boy end of the twin relation, and that his twin sister's name was
Margaret, and that they were born January 3, 1842. The twin sister, Margaret,
died when about two years of age. Benjamin South, a brother, now living at
Oelwein, was of later birth. F. M. South enlisted in the Union army when quite
young and served three years in the Civil war.
SOME FIRST THINGS IN JONES COUNTY.
The first pipe organ in the county was at the German Reformed church in
Monticello, in 1890.
The first cheese factory was the Ross Cheese Factory at Bowen's Prairie in
1867.
The first creamery was established by H. D. Sherman at Monticello in 1875.
A creamery was also started by James L. Hall in Clay township about the same
time.
The first permanent settler was Hugh Bowen at Bowen's Prairie in 1836.
The first political caucus in the county was held at the house of Oement
Russell for the purpose of nominating territorial county officers. This was on
July 24, 1839.
The first sheriff was Hugh Bowen.
The first court was at Edinburg, March 22, 1841.
The first clerk of the court was William Hutton, 1841.
The first recorder, Qark Joslin, 1841.
The first treasurer, W. Cronkhite, 1866.
The first auditor, Charles Kline, 1870.
The first superintendent of schools, B. F. Shaw, i860.
The first county attorney, F. O. Ellison, January, 1887.
The first tile factory was by John Gibson, Monticello, April, 1879.
First lodge, was I. O. O. F., No. 40, Anamosa, July 6, 1852.
First bank, I. L. Simington, Monticello, 1867.
First flag raised at Olin, July 4, 1840; made by Mrs. N. Seeley.
First postoffice at Edinburg, January, 1840.
First district school. Sugar Grove, 1840, taught by T. Stivers.
First child bom was Mrs. Rebecca Merritt, daughter of Joseph Merritt,
about two miles west of Olin, January 5, 1839. Now living at Sturgis, S. Dakota.
First attorney was C. C. Rockwell, Newport, 1846.
First physician. Dr. Clark Joslin, 1838.
First license for grocery and tavern, Clement Russell, Fairview.
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First license for selling goods to Reuben Bunce, Fairview, 1841.
First saw and grist mill in 1838, by George Walworth.
First newspaper, The Anamosa News, 1852.
Oldest merchant continuously in business, Frank Hoffman, grocery, Martelle ;
since 1872.
Teacher with longest continuous service, Miss Grace Maple, Onslow, twenty
years.
First general election at house of Barrett Whittemore, September 11, 183&
Eleven votes cast for delegate to legislative assembly.
First delegate to territorial legislature, Barrett Whittemore, in 1838.
First representative to territorial legislature, George H. Walworth, August,
1839.
First Catholic Mission, at Anamosa, 1857.
First church organized, Scotch Grove Presbyterian, at Edinburg, 1841.
Oldest blacksmith continuously in business at the same stand, John Cole,
Onslow, since July 5, 1871.
The first town to incorporate was Anamosa, 1856.
The first marriage, T. J. Peak and Rebecca Beardsley, December, 1839.
HISTORIC SETTLXG OF JONES COUNTY.
Jones county is in the heart of what was popularly known as *'The Black
Hawk Purchase." Following the Black Hawk war a treaty was made on the
2ist of September, 1832, with the Sac and Fox Indians, by the terms of which
there was ceded to the United States Government a strip of territory extending
fifty miles westward from the Mississippi river. This territory was vacated by
the Indians and thrown open to settlement, June ist, 1833. There was at that
time no organized government, but by an act of congress approved June 28,
1834, the area of the state of Iowa as it then existed for the purpose of tempor-
ary government, was attached to and made a part of the territory of Michigan.
The legislative council of Alichigan passed an act which was approved Sep-
tember 6, 1834, laying off and organizing the counties west of the Mississippi
river. This act, which took effect October i, 1834, had reference to the terri-
tory of the Black Hawk Purchase, and it divided that territory into two coun-
ties, Dubuque and Demoine.
About that time Michigan was admitted into the Union as a state and by an
act of congress approved April 20, 1836, the area of the present state of Iowa,
and its two organized counties, was included in the jurisdiction of the new
territory of Wisconsin.
At the second annual session of the legislature of Wisconsin, which was
held at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines, a law was passed November
6, 1837, which provided for the sub-division of Dubuque county into new
counties. The new counties were fourteen in number, and covered not only
the territory of the Black Hawk Purchase, but they even reached further west and
embraced Indian land that had not yet been ceded to the United States.
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The fourteen counties created by this act in the order in which they were
named in the title of the legislative act were, Dubuque, Clayton, Jackson, Benton,
Linn, Jones, CHnton, Johnson, Scott, Delaware, Buchanan, Cedar, Fayette and
Keokuk. Since its organization there has been no change in the boundary
of Jones county. It remains today so far as its boimdary lines are concerned,
the same as it was when organized by the act of November 6, 1837.
This act gave Jones county its historic setting from a geographical stand-
point. This is the Jones county about which the following pages are written.
Jones county was named in honor of General George W. Jones, of Dubuque,
who at the time Dubuque county was sub-divided, represented the territory of
Wisconsin in Congress.
Only a i)art of these counties were organized at that time. Jackson county
was equipped with an organizing sheriff in the person of William A. Warren, of
Bellevue. He was also in a limited sense, made the sheriff of Jones county and
Linn county. For matters of court jurisdiction, Bellevue was, during 1838 and
a part of 1839, the capital of Jones and Linn counties. An election precinct
was designated in each of these and the report of votes sent to Bellevue.
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY.
The Hrst territorial legislature, after the separation of Iowa from Wisconsin,
met in Uurlington, November 12, 1838. During this session, the county of
Jones was organized, or at least an act was passed with this end in view.
The act passed by this legislature to organize the county was as follows :
Section i. Be if enacted by the council and house of representatives of the
territory of Iowa, That the county of Jones be, and the same is hereby, organ-
ized from and after the first day of June next, and the inhabitants of the said
county be entitled to all the rights and privileges to which, by law, the inhabi-
tants of other organized counties of this territory are entitled; and the said
county shall be a part of the third judicial district, and the district court shall
be held at the seat of justice in said county, or such other place as may be pro-
vided until the seat of justice is established.
Section 2. That Simeon Gardner of Clinton coimty; Israel Mitchell of
Linn county, and William H. Whitesides of Dubuque county, be, and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to locate the seat of justice in said county,
and shall meet at the house of Thomas Denson on the second Monday of
March next, in said coimty, and shall proceed forthwith to examine and locate
a suitable place for the seat of justice of said county, having particular reference
to the convenience of the county and health fulness of the location.
Section 3. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall within ten
days after their meeting at the aforesaid place, make out and certify to the
governor of this territory, under their hands and seals, a certificate containing
a particular description of the location selected for the aforesaid county seat;
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and, on receipt of such certificate, the governor shall issue his proclamation
affirming and declaring the said location to be the seat of justice of said county
of Jones.
Section 6. The commissioners aforesaid shall receive, upon making out their
certificate of the location of the seat of justice of said county, each three dollars
per day, and also three dollars for every twenty miles going to and returning
from their respective homes.
Section 7. Upon the presentation of the certificate aforesaid to the treas-
urer of Jones county, the treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay
the respective sums allowed by this act out of any moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Approved January 24, 1839.
It seems that these men failed to carry out the provisions of this act, and
we find the county seat not to have been located until the following year, or
1840. In the legislature of 1839-40, three other commissioners were appointed,
as follows: Thomas M. Isett, of Muscatine county; John G. McDonald of Jackson
county, and B. F. Moffitt of Delaware county.
These commissioners performed the duties enjoined upon them by the terri-
torial legislature, the following report of their action being now on file in the
clerk's office at Anamosa:
COUNTY SEAT COMMISSIONERS.
Jones County, Iowa, April 22, 1840.
We, the undersigned, being appointed commissioners to locate the county seat
of Jones county by an act of the legislative assembly of the territory of Iowa,
passed at their second session, met in pursuance of said act, and after being
sworn according to law, we proceeded to discharge the duties of our office agree-
able to law, and after viewing the situation of the county, we came to the con-
clusion that the northeast quarter of section thirty-six, township 85 north,
range 3 west of the fifth principal meridian, was the best location that could
be made in Jones county, and we called it by the name of Edinburgh.
Jno. G. McDonald.
T. M. Isett,
B. F. Moffitt, Commissioners.
The record does not show what compensation B. F. Moffit received for this
work. John G. McDonald received thirty-six dollars and T. M. Isett received
fifty-one dollars. Colonel Thomas Cox of Bellevue was the surveyor.
FIRST ELECTION OF COUNTY OFFICERS.
The first election of county officers took place in the fall of 1839. Of the
county commissioners elected on this occasion, only two appeared at the recorded
meetings of the Board, Thomas Denson and Charles P. Hutton. From sources
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outside of the record, it has been determined that the third commissioner was
H. G. Seeley.
William Hutton was the first clerk of the commissioners* court. Hugh Bowen
was the first sheriff of Jones county. Clark Joslin was the first recorder.
There were three polling places at the election of 1839, and there were three
election precincts — Bowen's Prairie, Walnut Fork and Farm Creek. The judges
of the election of 1839 were Orville Cronkhite, Eli Brown, I. H. Simpson, Wil-
liam Clark, James Hutton, and J. C. Raffety. The clerks were Thomas S.
Denson, George H. Brown and D. G. Morgan.
It will be remembered that an election had been held in September, 1838, or
one year previous, for the purpose of electing representatives to the Iowa Legis-
lature. This election was in the cabin of Barrett Whittemore. Only eleven votes
were cast, and a representative, R. G. Roberts was elected from Cedar, Jones,
Johnson and Linn counties.
SOME EARLY COMMISSIONER'S RECORDS.
The first recorded meeting of the commissioner's court was held February 3,
1840. The first act of the commissioners was to appoint Hugh Bowen, assessor,
in the place of Daniel Chaplin, who declined to serve.
In the further proceedings, we find that George Meiford presented a petition
for a county road. It was also ordered that the regular meetings of the board
should be held thereafter at the house of Donald Sutherland until further
ordered.
It was at this meeting also that the county commissioners who had been
appointed by act of the legislature to locate the county seat made their report
which is set out above, locating the place and calling it Edinburgh.
An act of congress provided that, as each new county was organized, the
United States government would grant to the county commissioners a quarter
section of land on which the county seat should be located. Accordingly, we
find from the book of Original Entries, that on June 20, 1840, Thomas S. Denson
and Charles P. Hutton, as commissioners of Jones county, claimed the quarter
section above mentioned, being the northeast quarter of section 36, township 85
north, range 3 west of the fifth principal meridian. This was within half a mile
of the geographical center of Jones county and its central location was the argu-
ment which secured for it the honor of being the first seat of county government.
When the county seat was moved from Edinburg to Newport, no change was
made in this grant of land, and the county commissioners retained this quarter
section, and later upon this land the county poor farm was established. This
same land has remained the property of the county and is now a part of the pres-
ent county farm.
The day after Edinburg was laid out. Colonel Thomas Cox, at the solicitation
of J. D. Walworth, came to the present location of Anamosa, and laid out a
town which was called Dartmouth. This plat was never recorded. The place
did not grow or develop, and of course the efforts expended to plant a town,
came to naught.
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The first tax was made July 6, 1840, being five mills on the dollar of taxable
property in Jones county, and a poll of fifty cents upon each voter.
We find that on November 5, 1840, Clement Russell paid into the county
treasury twenty-five dollars for the privilege of keeping a grocery. To those
who have not been upon the border, it may be a question why grocerymen in a
new country should be so heavily taxed. The initiated will understand that a
frontier grocery was simply a saloon of the lowest character, where whisky was
the only article on sale, and which could be obtained at a reasonable price, in
any quantity from a glassful to a barrel.
In April, 1841. we find six dollars appropriated to Donald Sutherland for
rent of rooms in which the county commissioners had held meetings.
Henry Hopkins was the first counsel and prosecuting attorney and for his
services, he was allowed thirty- four dollars at the meeting of the board in March,
1842.
October 3, 1842, the territorial road from Dubuque to Marion, was approved
on that portion of it which was included in Jones county. James Butler and
P. Scott were the commissioners appointed by the legislature to view the same.
The first licensed ferry of which there is a record, was granted Adam Over-
acker, across the Wapsipinicon river at Newport. This license was for the con-
sideration of two dollars, continued for one year from April 13, 1847. ^ ^^o-
horse vehicle was charged twenty-five cents; one horse, twelve and one-half
cents ; footman, .six and one-quarter cents.
In order to fund the increasing floating indebtedness, and to maintain the
county warrants as near par as possible, it was ordered, October 7, 1850, that
the clerk of the commissioner's court, issue bonds of the county, bearing ten
per cent interest, due in five years, the bonds to be for fifty dollars each, and
not to exceed forty in number. These bonds were to be issued to any one who
would present the treasurer's receipt for the amount.
In 1851-52, various state roads were surveyed and platted, among which were
highways from Anamosa to Bellevue; Anamosa to Gamavillo, Clayton county;
Cascade, by way of Canton, to Maquoketa ; Cascade to Garry Owen ; Denson's
Ferry to the house of Thomas McNally, in Washington township; Anamosa
to the Davenport and Marion road ; Anamosa to Camanche ; Fairview to Tipton.
Most of these roads are yet the principal roads of travel through the county.
ELECTION PRECINCTS.
At a meeting of the county commissioners, July 6, 1840, Jones county was
divided into four precincts for electoral purposes, as follows :
Walnut Precinct, comprising townships 83 and 84, in ranges i, 2, and 3 west
of the fifth principal meridian.
Buflfalo Fork Precinct, comprising townships 83 and 84, range 4 west.
Bowen Prairie precinct, comprising congressional township 86, ranges 2, 3
and 4. and township 85, ranges 3 and 4.
Farm Creek precinct, comprising townships 85 and 86, range i, and town-
ship 85, range 2.
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The civil partition of Jones county in 1840, might, therefore, be represented
as follows:
BOWEN PRAIRIE
FARM CREEK
BUFFAFiO
FORK
WATiNUT
Ranges IV,
West
III,
II.
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The judges of elections appointed at* the time of organizing the precincts
were: |'|-i|
For Bowen Prairie — ^William Dalton, William Clark, Charles Johnson. Elec-
tion to be held at the house of Joseph E. Green.
For Walnut — Moses Garrison, Isaac H. Simpson and O. Cronkhite. Election
to be held at the house of Norman Seeley.
For Buffalo Fork — ^John G. Joslin, Dement Russell and G. H. Ford. Election
to be held at the house of Clement Russell.
For Farm Creek — ^Jacob Peet, Hezekiah Winchell and John E. Lovejoy.
Election to be held at the house of Abraham Hostetter. .
Bowen Prairie Precinct was made Road District No. I, with Franklin Dalby,
supervisor; Buffalo, No. 2, with Clark Joslin, supervisor; Walnut, No. 3, with
John Merritt, supervisor ; Farm Creek, No. 4, with George Mefford, supervisor.
ORGANIZATION OF TOWNSHIPS.
At the meeting of the county commissioners* court, July 5, 1842, it was re-
solved to organize the county into townships, which should have their regular
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township officers and local government. The precincts were accordingly changed
into townships, without altering their boundaries.
Rome was organized as a township, July 5, 1842, with the same boundaries
as Walnut precinct, given above, the first township election to be held at the
residence of N. B. Seeley.
Fairvtew was organized as a township, July 5, 1842, with the same boundaries
as Buffalo Fork precinct, given above.
Washington was organized as a township, July 5, 1842, with the same boun-
daries as Farm Creek precinct, given above.
Richland was organized as a township July 5, 1842, with the same boun-
daries as Bowen Prairie precinct, given above.
From this arrangement it will be seen that Rome, Fairview, Washington and
Richland were the four original townships of the county, and out of these have
been carved the townships as they exist today.
Clay was organized as a township April 3, 1844, including what is now known
as Wyoming, that part of the present township of Qay which is south of the
Maquoketa river, all of Scotch Grove township, south of the river, and a strip
about one mile m width upon the eastern border of Wayne township, extending
north, through Monticello, until it touched the river. The first election was held
at the house of John Sutherland.
MoNTiCEi.Lo was organized as a township June 10, 1847, from Richland town-
ship, and included all of that township south of the Maquoketa river, being most
of the territory now occupied by Monticello, Wayne, Cass and Castle Grove.
Greenfield was organized as a township with its present boundaries, being
separated from Fairview, and corresponding to congressional township 83, range 4.
The townships now know as Cass and Wayne were separated from Monti-
cello and attached to Fairview April 21, 1848.
Hale was organized as a township in July, 1851, and included the present
townships of Hale and Oxford, which were on that date separated from Rome.
The first township election was held at the house of Joseph Bumgamer.
Jackson was organized as a township in July, 185 1, and included the present
townships of Madison and Jackson, which were on that date separated from
Rome. The first township election was held at the house of Charles Beam.
Cass was separated from Fairview and organized as a township, with its
present boundaries, March i, 1852. The first election was held at the house of
W. J. Beaks.
Wyoming was separated from Clay township February 8, 1854, and organized,
with its present boundaries, under the name of Pierce township, which was a
couple of years later, changed to Wyoming. The first election was at the house
of William Stuart.
Castle Grove was separated from Monticello and organized with its pres-
ent boundaries, January i, 1855. The first election was held April 2, 1855, at
the school house near Mr. Beardsley*s. John Scott, Horace Downer and Ezra
C. Springer were judges of election, and Thomas S. Hubbard, and Albert Highby
were the clerks of election.
On January i, 1855, Monticello township was extended across the river to
the northern boundary of the county, corresponding to its present boundary,
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ind included that part north of the river that had formerly belonged to Richland
township.
M-\DisoN township was organized, with its present boundaries, January i,
1855. The first election was held April 2, 1855.
Scotch Grove was separated from Qay and organized as a township, with
its present boundaries, in February, 1855. The first election was held at the
Scotch Grove schoolhouse, April 2, 1855.
Oxford was separated from Hale township and organized with its present
boundaries, in March, 1855. The first election was held at the house of John
Bryan.
Wayne was set off from Fairview township and organized with its present
boundaries, March 5, 1856. The first election was held at the house of O. G.
Scrivens, April 7, 1856.
It will be observed that the last township was not formed until some sixteen
years after the organization of the county, and that certain districts belonged,
at different periods, to quite a number of different townships. Wayne township,
for instance, had belonged to Richland, Monticello and Fairview previous to its
organization as an independent township. Greenfield, Cass, Wyoming, Castle
Grove, Madison, Scotch Grove, Oxford and Wayne suffered no changes in their
boundaries after organization as independent townships. Rome, Fairview, Wash-
ington, Richland, Qay, Monticello and Hale townships arrived at their present
boundaries by a process of elimination or whittling off, until each had just what
territory '^vas left and the adjoining townships had received all the territory they
were to have. Each township now corresponds to the congressional numbering
with the township north and range west, rendering the political geography of the
county as simple as a chess board.
Lovell township was organized as a separate township about January, 1898,
with the same boundaries as Monticello township, the latter being included within
Lovell township, the corporation of Monticello being declared a separate town-
ship and called Monticello township.
THE TOPOGRAPHY OF JONES COUNTY.
By E. E. Reed.
(The following interesting chapter on the general surface conditions existing
in Jones county, written by Ervin E. Reed, of Monticello, will be a valuable ad-
dition to the History of Jones County, and will be fully appreciated by all stu-
dents of natural science. Mr. Reed has a natural and gifted aptitude for the
study of the geological and soil formations of Mother Earth, and the study of
the physical geography of a country is to him a pleasure and a delight. The
phenomena existing in Jones county, which Mr. Reed very pointedly describes
with reference to the origin and course of the streams and rivers, should be
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noticed. To the mind untutored in the love and study of the natural sciences,
this contribution will not have the interest it will have to the more educated
mind, schooled in the study of Mother Earth and her composition. — Editor.)
Jones county offers an interesting- study to the student of nature who would
read the story of the creation in the formation of the rocks and soils, and in the
conformation of the hills, valleys and prairies. To the unscientific man the
county offers a prospect of beautiful, productive prairies, and graceful rounded
and gently rolling timberlands. To the scientific mind, the topography of the
county presents characteristics that are astonishing and suggest problems that
are confounding and perplexing. To the artist, the landscapes of the county are
the rivals in beauty of the creations of his liveliest imagination. To the prac-
tical man of affairs, the soils of the county give abounding promise of assured
harvests and ample reward for all the labor employed in agriculture, while the
forests of hardwood trees furnish fuel and lumber in abundance. All parts of the
county are capable of producing material wealth to reward the earnest toiler
whose faith and intelligent labor merit reward.
The area of Jones county is nearly equally divided between the prairie lands,
and the wooded lands or "timber lands" as they are here locally called. The
prairie land was found by the early settler to be destitute of trees, save a few
scattered crab-apple or plum trees on the rolling "uplands," and willows in iso-
lated groups in the marshy sloughs The rolling "uplands" were covered with
a thick carpet of wild grass, but it supported no trees save the occasional wild
fruit tree, and no bush save the scattered berry bushes, and no herbacious shrub
save the red-rooted prairie tea, well known to the pioneer who broke the prairie
sod. The prairie soil is rich and productive, and the ease with which it could be
brought under cultivation and the rich returns it gives in harvests, invited the
pioneer to make his home there. Thus we find that the first settlements were
made on the "upland" rolling prairie.
The sloughs or level ill-drained marshes were more obstinate and resisted the
approach of the settler. Long grass and rushes covered the slough, which was
reeking with water lying beneath the wealth of grassy growth. No animal found
a home in the slough excepting the cray-fish and the muskrat. The former
built circular chimneys of mud around the openings of their subterranean homes,
and the latter built his dome-like mud houses in the sluggish waters. The
muskrat has now disappeared and the cray-fish has been banished to a few wet
road sides, but the rounded tussacks which mark the sites of former chimneys
and mud dome-Hke houses are found in many pasture fields that have been re-
claimed from the former sloughs. The sloughs have yielded to the dominion of
man, and the tall grasses and rushes have disappeared. The waters have found
their way to the streams, and now com fields and meadows are found where the
pioneer found impassable morasses.
The timber lands presented a harder problem to the settler. The labor and
patience necessary to clear the soil of the trees, bushes and roots, rendered the
task of making farms there an unprofitable one. When prairie lands could be
purchased as cheaply as they could in the early history of the county, there was
no inducement to the farmer to clear the timber soil of the growth of trees, or
remove from the soil the great stumps and roots of the hardwood forests. But
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with the advance m the price of prairie lands, the timber lands have been in-
vaded by the farmer, and are now fast yielding to the plow.
Jones county is located in that part of the country which geologists assert
was raised above the cosmic waters during the Silurian Epoch, and during the
Niagara age of that eon of geologic time. The rocks exposed here are of lime-
stone, the older ones being unseamed and unstratified rock masses, examples of
which are found in the rocky promontories and bluffs bordering the principal
streams. The newer formations are regularly stratified and evenly deposited,
as are the rocks found in the quarries at Stone City and elsewhere in the
county. The irregular rock masses of the older formation, called domolite, fur-
nishes good stone for the burning of lime, and in various parts of the county a
good grade of lime has been produced. At present the cost of fuel makes the
burning of lime unprofitable and none is now produced within the county. The
domolite is the kind of stone in which galena or lead ore is found, and the pros-
pectors have repeatedly looked for this metal in the ledges of the bluffs within
the county. Small quantities of lead have been found, but never has there been
a lead mine here opened that has rewarded the prospector for his labor. The
stratified rocks of the quarries furnish a high grade of building stone capable
of being easily dressed into desirable shapes.
By far the most important resource of the county is its soils, and they have
been deposited at some far later period of time after the Silurian Epoch had
passed. The rich blackish loam that furnishes a favorable seed-bed for the
grains and grasses that have brought wealth to the county, is not the direct
product of any cosmic action. No flood deposited this rich mantle on the underly-
ing clays. No glacial ice carried it from the north. No volcano belched it forth
from the earth's center. No winds scattered it over the hills and prairies. The
loams and soils are the products of many agents acting upon the rocks and clays
that form the subsoils. Industrious ants and burrowing animals, and the blind
earth worms have carried upward to the surface the finer grains found among
the underlying clays and subsoils. These little agents' work have been sup-
plemented by action of the rains and frosts, and the active processes of animal
and vegetable growth and decay. These agencies, acting through the thousands
of years, which must have elapsed since the glacial ice, deposited its successive
mantles of clay over this country, and have produced a soil or loam of exceed-
ingly great fertility and productiveness.
Beneath the blackish soils, there is found a nearly continuous sheet of yel-
lowish clay varying in thickness from nothing on the rocky promontories, to
ten or twenty feet. Beneath the yellow clay is found a similar layer of bluish
clay. Between the layers of clay is found an incontinuous layer of blackish soil,
in which are found embedded the trunks and branches of giant trees, represent-
ing an interglacial forest. In many railroad cuttings, and road grading, and
in many wells, there are found the remains of ancient trees which represent a
forest growth of a degree of luxuriance unknown at the present time.
The scientist explains the presence of the clay deposits by calling to his aid
vast continental fields of glacial ice which inundated this country at repeated
Intervals since the country was first raised above the waters. The first of these
ice sheets appears to have rested on the surface of this part of the country heavily
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enough to scrape off all soils and forest growths it may have found here, but it
did not rest on the surface heavily enough to plane down the hills or carve the
indurated rocks which pierce the soils.
When the ice sheet melted, it dropped in a fairly uniform layer, a bluish clay
in which we find large quantities of small rounded greenstone pebbles. When
the first ice sheet that covered this part of the country, which scientists call the
Kansan ice, receded, it left its deposit in the form of the blue clay described.
This deposit scientists call the Kansan drift.
Long eons of time must have elapsed after the Kansan ice receded before
another continental ice sheet submerged the country. During the unnumbered
years of the cycles following the deposit of the Kansan drift rank forests of
giant conifers sprang up, and what is now Jones county presented in those far-
oflf periods of time, the dark and impenetrable depths of an evergreen and
cone-bearing forest. When this forest was at its height, a second ice sheet,
known as the lowan ice, swept southward, leveling it to the ground, and breaking
and crushing the giant trunks. The lowan ice drifted and floated over this part
of the country in such a manner as not to disturb in any great degree the soB
accumulations of the forest growing times, and there is now discovered beneath
the yellowish clay of the lowan drift and above the blue clay of the Kansan
drift, the remains of the inter-glacial soils, and the broken trunks and branches
of pine and cedar trees embedded in the deposit and preserved throughout the
ages that have elapsed since they saw the light of the sun. The lowan ice melted
and deposited over the country a fine clayey silt, here almost universally found
as the yellow subsoil underlying the blackish loams of the prairies. Flinty pebMes
are found through the lowan drift ; and over the drift-covered prairie lands are
found granite boulders, smoothed and rounded by the action of ice and water.
In some localities, the lowan drift is very thin and imperceptible, as on the
flat plains near Monticello and Martelle. There the blue clay of the Kansan drift
approaches the surface and is the subsoil found beneath the loam.
There is a cap-like deposit on all the hilltops and high rolling lands of the
county diflfering in a material degree from drift deposits of the prairies. A
yellowish clay of exceedingly fine texture is found on all the rounded tops of
the hills scattered over the level prairie and on all the upland surfaces of the
timber lands. This exceedingly finely pulverized silt deposit varies in thickness
from a slight trace where its edges mingle with the clays of the prairie to two
or even three score feet on the brows of the forest covered hills. This yellowish
clayey deposit is found capping all the higher hills and promontories of the
county, and wherever it exists over any considerable area, the hardwood timber
trees are found growing indigenously. No boulders or flint pebbles are ever
found in this deposit as they are in the drift clays. The same deposits are
found in the rich and productive valleys of the Rhine and the Danube in Eu-
rope, on the banks of the Amazon in South America, and along the fertile valley
of the Hoang Ho in Asia. The deposits of this nature were first noticed along
the productive hillsides of the German Rhine, and the German name of "Loess**
has been applied to like deposits wherever found.
The loess is usually found filling the valleys and low plains, but in eastern
Iowa, the loess is placed only on the highest points of land, and there it is found
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forming a cap over the boulder-dotted clay of the lowan drift. The formation
of the loess has been attributed to the action of the glacial waters, and this ex-
planation has been accepted as stating the reason for its appearance in the great
valleys of the rivers mentioned, but this explanation will not account for the clay
caps that cover the hills of the upper Mississippi valley and those found within
Jones county. This coimty, together with its neighbors, here presents a scientific
riddle which has never been satisfactorily solved.
The loams, which the patient activities of centuries have produced over the
surface of the drift deposits, are rich in plant food and are arranged physically
so as to offer peculiar advantages for easy cultivation. The farms of the county
where wealth is being produced most rapidly and with the least labor, are located
on the ancient drift plains.
The loess soils are found covering the timber lands and occupy fully one-
half of the county. Where the surface slopes are comparatively gentle, there are
no better soils than those developed on the loess. It is a fine calcarious clay,
free from sand on the one hand and pebbles and boulders on the other. It ab-
sorbs and retains moisture well. The roots of plants easily penetrate it to a
great depth. And, where the surface is relatively level, a fine, fertile, brownish,
easily tilled soil develops. On the steeper slopes, the loess erodes easilv and
v^etable loam is washed away as fast as it forms, and a hard, stiff, intractable
soil results owing to the fresh loess being continually exposed on the surface
which the mellowing agendes have not modified or changed into loam. Fortu-
nately, the area where soils of the quality last described are small, and the greater
portion of what is called timber land is capable of producing abundant returns
to the farmer and stock raiser who intelligently uses the soil. With the rapid
advance of land values, the timber lands have attracted the attention of the
farmer and stockman, and now large areas that were formerly covered with
timber have been brought under the plow, and are producing generous harvests,
and are abundantly repaying the industry and patience that transformed them
from a wilderness into valuable farm lands.
To the student of nature, the conformation of the surface of Jones county
presents many astonishing features, some of which have puzzled the scientific
mind from the beginning of geologic study and are yet classed as unsolved
problems. To one who is used to seeing the rivers rise as small mountain or hill
streams, and rush down their rapid descent, into slow moving rivers in broad
valleys, it is astonishing to find that all this is reversed here, and in this one
part of all the world, there exists an anomalous drainage system, the like of
which cannot be found in any other part of the world. In this region the rivers
run in gigantic channels cut in the axis of the highest ridges of the country.
The streams all have their origin in low-lying, ill-drained sloughs. The streams
here appear to defy the laws of gravitation and flow from the low valleys directly
towards the high lands, and find their beds in deep gorges cut lengthwise in the
highest ranges of hills and highlands of the country.
We here find that the secondary streams run in channels of constantly in-
creasing depth as they near the principal streams, until, as they empty into the
main streams, they run between high limestone bluffs and forest-crowned hills.
Throughout the county, and in fact throughout their courses, the principal streams
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run in narrow ribbons of flood plains embosomed between precipitous, weather-
beaten cliffs or bluffs, and high, loess-covered and steeply rounded hills. The
divides are the rational valleys and lie lower than the hilltops bordering the
streams.
The north fork of the Maquoketa River rises in the northern part of Dubuque
county, within a few miles of the Mississippi River and within sight of the bluffs
bordering that stream, and, flowing away from the main stream into which it must
finally empty its waters, it runs down its rocky, water-worn gorge on the line
between Dubuque and Delaware counties, and enters Jones county at Cascade,
where it runs for a short distance through a comparatively level plain and falls
over the perpendicular ledge of the underlying rock-bed and enters a rocky
gorge again. The depth of the gorge increases below Cascade until the border-
ing hills attain a height of over two hundred and fifty feet above the water,
measured at a distance of a half va mile from the water's edge. Throughout its
course in this county, and until it unites its waters with the south fork or main
branch of the Maquoketa River, near the city in Jackson county which takes its
name from these streams, the north fork buries itself deeper and deeper among the
overhanging bluffs and forest-clad hills. Secondary valleys branch from the
main gorge at frequent intervals. These are also bluff bordered for a distance
varying from a few rods to a mile or more from the juncture with the river's
channel. Down such a secondary channel the White Water Creek on the east
side and other streams too small to receive even a local name, send their waters
into the north fork. By far the greater number of the secondary gorges are
dry excepting for short times after the periodical summer rains or during the
time of the melting of the winter snows. The occasional streams of water that
find their ways down these secondary gorges are often raging torrents, rolling
detached rock masses towards the river, and often cutting deep channels at the
bottom of the canyons in which they find their beds.
By far the greater number of secondary gorges are steep sided and narrow
ravines, V-shaped at the upper ends and widening out and becoming bluff bounded
and flat bottomed or U-shaped at their lower ends. These gorges and canyons
are deep and forest covered and the sunlight never enters many of them. The
slopes are wooded with a dense growth of deciduous trees and densely covered
with an undergrowth of ferns and bushes.
The south fork of the Maquoketa is the second largest stream of the county
and drains more of the surface than all other streams together. The Jordon and
Farm creeks on the north take the waters of Richland and Washington townships
from within a short distance of the north fork, and Deer Creek, Kitty Creek,
Mineral Creek and Bear Creek encroach upon the rightful territory of the Buffalo
and Wapsipinicon rivers. Bear Creek runs for a distance of twenty miles in a
course parallel to the latter stream and within two to six miles of that stream,
flowing for many miles on the Wopsipinicon side of te rounded loess-covered
.ind forested hills of the divide which forms the highest land between the streams,
then flowing through that divide on the south and east of Wyoming, it empties its
waters into the Maquoketa which flows north of that natural divide. The south
fork rises in flat sloughs of northwestern Delaware county one hundred and four
miles from the point where it empties into the Mississippi. It enters this county
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at the northwest corner of Lovell township. Above Monticello the narrow gorge-
like valley widens out into an alluvial plain. Here the river appears to desert the
high hills and it flows for a few miles through one of the three small alluvial
plains of the county. Below Monticello, as if frightened at the unusually flat
landscape, the river again seeks the higher lands and flows throughout its course
in this county through a canyon that repeats in its general characteristics that of
the north fork.
The Wapsipinicon or '*Wapsi" as it is here called is the largest river of the
county, but although it flows across the county from the northwest comer of
Cass township to the southeast corner of the county, and although it receives the
waters of the Buffalo, which is the largest tributary entering any of the rivers of
the county, it drains a very small portion of the area of the county. The waters
of the Buffalo join the waters of the Wapsipinicon after they flow but a short
distance in the county, and no other stream of such importance as to receive a
local name drains into that stream on the north. Walnut Creek gathers the
waters from the territory on the south. The sluggish waters lying on the level,
low divide between the Wapsipinicon and the Cedar rivers form sloughs and
ponds in their hesitancy in determining which way to flow, and finally avoiding the
former stream but a few miles to the north, they flow towards the Cedar River.
Thus we find that a part of Greenfield township, which lies but a short distance
from the Wapsipinicon, flow directly away from that stream towards the Cedar
many miles farther away. The deep gorge and hill bordered banks of the Wap-
sipinicon and Buffalo have the same general characteristics as those of the
Maquoketa. Above Stone City, the Wapsipinicon flows through its narrow,
rocky gorge with a narrow ribbon of alluvial flood plain bordering each bank at
the foot of the canyon walls. At Stone City, the rocky bluffs converge, and the
river occupies nearly all its narrow ribbon of bottom land. Below Anamosa the
flood plain expands and at Newport it attains the width of a mile. The canyon
disappears and the river flows for a few miles through the second alluvial plain
of the county. Below Olin, the canyon walls rise again and repeat on a lesser
scale the rugged scenery of the upper course. Again in Oxford township, the
flood expands to a mile or more in width, and Oxford Junction and Oxford Mills
stand in the midst of the third alluvial plain found in this county.
The low divides lying between the high hills bordering the streams are in
many cases lower than the rounded and gently curved tops of those hills. The
plain near Martelle, which divides the waters of the Wapsipinicon and Cedar
rivers is lower than the hills along the banks of those streams, and the water, as
it flows from this paradoxical divide into the rivers which cleave the axis of the
highest ridge, flow in constantly deepening channels until they empty into those
rivers between walls, approximating in character the gorges of those streams.
Southwest of Monticello are found low-lying ridges which diversify the drift
plain all the way to the banks of the Buffalo River. Midway between Monticello
and Anamosa, the drift plain forming the divide, which is at once a basin and the
watershed that divides the waters to the right and to the left, is bounded on the
north and on the south by forest covered hills from twenty-five to more than one
hundred feet higher than the plain which separates the water of the drainage
systems.
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This botton land divide is diversified by isolated, graceiuUy curved, elongated
hills, like gigantic canoes lying inverted on the sea of prairie. True to its char-
acter of paradoxies, this anomalous plain ceases to be the principal divide near
Onslow, and the Maqnoketa sends a tributary, locally known as Bear Creek, down
the general slope to within two miles of the Wapsipinicon, and robs that stream
of much of its drainage territory, and reduces the principal divide to a line of
hills near the bank of that stream.
The divide between the two forks of the Maquoketa River is represented by
the level region known as Bowen's Prairie, which lies on a lower plain than the
hilltops along the banks of those streams. The country here presents anomalous
formations of topography and deposits of soil found nowhere else in the worlds
It is a land of "upside-down." The rivers all rise in the lowlands and flow
towards the highlands, where they occupy gorges between high hills whose tops
are higher than the sloughs from which they drain their waters. The loess,
which is elsewhere deposited in the valleys, is here perched on the highest points
of the hills, spreading out and down with lessening depth until it disappears en-
tirely before it reaches the valleys. These paradoxies mark this land as one
unique among the countries of the world, and perplexing to the student who is
unable to explain the conditions here found. We leave these contradictions of
nature unsolved as we found them, a problem that can be studied with profit by
the student of nature.
TORNADO HISTORY.
On Sunday, June 3, i860, a most terrible tornado passed over Linn, a por-
tion of Jones, Clinton and other counties of Iowa and Illinois, resulting in
serious loss of life. It was the most disastrous windstorm in the history of the
county. Greenfield and Rome townships were in the path of the whirlwind, in
Jones county, where nine persons met their death.
The following account of the casualties was given in The Anamosa Eureka :
"W. Allen's family, living in the house of William RoWnson, were killed,
and the house blown to atoms. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Allen,
one boy, seven years old, and two little girls, aged five and two years. John
Niles of Cedar Rapids, had stopped at Allen's house a short time before the
storm, and was also killed. Mr. Allen and Mr. Niles were alive when found, but
died shortly after. The others were instantly killed and horribly mangled. Mr.
Allen was found about five rods north from where the house stood. Mrs. Allen-
lay twenty-five rods to the southwest ; one girl thirty-three rods southwest, and
the other sixty-five rods to the southeast ; the boy was about forty rods distant
fiom the house in the same direction. One of the sills of the house, sixteen feet
long and eight by ten inches, was found about thirty rods west, buried thirteen
feet deep in the soil of the prairie.
"Here the storm was most destructive. The ground was literally plowed up,
covered with rails, stakes, etc., standing upright, some of them buried half their
length in the ground. The grass was cut shorter than it could have been with a
scythe.
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"Nine head of horses, thirteen head of cattle and twelve of hogs were found
dead on one eighty-acre lot, and nearly as many more were taken from the same
land badly injured. Dead dogs, rabbits, cats, domestic and prairie chickens were
also found.
"Charles Robinson's house was blown down, his property destroyed and his
family injured to some extent. Andrew Pcttit suffered the loss of his house.
The family were saved by taking refuge in the cellar. Schoolhouses in subdis-
tricts No. 6 and No. 4, in Greenfield township, were demolished. William Kohl
lost both house and bam, thou^ the family escaped with but slight injury.
"G. W. Lattimer's house was blown down and his family seveuely injured
Jacob Cole was left homeless, and mourns the severe injury of his two children.
E. M. Nickerson's dwelling was carried entirely from the foundations, but without
injury to its inhabitants. M. H. Nickerson's house was carried away. The fam-
ily were, fortunately, absent. Isaac Staffy's home was destroyed, and the family
somewhat injured.
"In Rome township, Mr. Piper's house was swept from its foundations, and
two of his children killed. Mr. Piper suffered a double fracture in his arm, and
his wife experienced some severe bruises. His barn was unroofed and almost
completely destroyed. A heavy lumber wagon near his barn was entirely demol-
ished, and the iron work twisted and bent in almost every shape.
"Elisha Miller lost his house, crops, etc. His son, twelve years of age, was
killed, and his wife badly injured. Samuel Cook, a young man living with Mr.
Miller was severely maimed. N. Bernard's house was entirely destroyed, and
his family more or less afflicted by physical suffering. The houses of Mr. Scoles,
William May and William Brockelhurst were almost completely demolished."
THE TORNADO OF 1878.
The next destructive wind storm given in the records was in the northern
part of the county in the year 1878. Considerable damage was done, but the
record does not show that any person was killed. The meteorological report of
the Monticello weather bureau by M. M. Moulton gives the following account of
this tornado :
"The people of Monticello will have occasion to date back to Tuesday, Octo-
ber 8. 1878, for the next two generations at the least. It was general election
day for state, county and township officers, and just as the town clock in the
schoolhouse tower indicated 5 -.30 in the afternoon, a destructive tornado struck
the southwest portion of the town, and passing off in a northeasterly direction,
totally destroyed ten dwelling houses, two churches, nine barns and stables, and
one icehouse, and more or less damaging forty-two other buildings.
"The day opened with the temperature fifty-five degrees at 7 a. m., nimbus
clouds and a fresh breeze from the south, with a little sprinkling of rain at 10 a. m.,
and also again at noon. The temperature at noon was seventy-three degrees, and
there were nimbus clouds and a gentle breeze from the east. The temperature re-
mained at seventy-three degrees up to and including the time of the tornado. The
wind came from the east until the arrival of a stronger current of air from the
southwest, when the weather vane backed around, via the north, to the southwest.
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For an hour previous to the arrival of the storm, a huge bank of nimbus clouds
was seen piled up in the west and southwest, with occasional vivid flashes of light-
ning, accompanied with loud peals of thunder; and when this ocean of nimbus
clouds approached from the southwest, a light strip appeared at the horizon, and
widened as the storm made headway in its course. The friction of the wind rolled
up the under side of the black clouds, and they had very much the appearance
of the waves of the ocean coming in from sea before a heavy gale of wind.
"The first damage done was the total destruction of E. R. Murdock's dwelling
house, three miles west and one mile south of Monticello, in Castle Grove
township. Then following a line northeasterly, it destroyed the dwelling house
of Mr. Brunthaver, in this township, and damaging the school building in dis-
trict No. 3. Then passing through the south portion of town, crossing Kitty
Creek at Skelly's Ford, it totally destroyed James Sloan's dwelling, in section 23,
two miles east of town. Then, crossing the Maquoketa River, it destroyed the
German church in Richland township, section 19, four miles northeast of town.
"The storm was one-fourth of a mile in width, and lasted less than a minute
in any one place, and traveled the whole course of eight or ten miles in a few
moments. In the center of the track of the storm the ruins were mostly left in
a northeasterly direction, but on either side of the center of the track, the debris
was left at every point of the compass. A little hail and rain fell a few moments
before and during the work of destruction. In all, it measured less than a quarter
of an inch — not enough to wet through the plastering of the houses that lost the
roofs. During the whole of the storm, there was a loud, roaring noise, like the
roar of the approaching of a thousand trains of cars, or the noise of the ocean
while being lashed by a furious storm."
SEVERE WINDSTORM OF 1 898.
On July 19, 1898, a severe windstorm visited Jones county, and especially the
northern part. The storm came up in the early evening. Monticello, Scotch
Grove, Center Junction, Cass, Castle Grove and Wayne suffered the most de-
struction, though there was more or less damage in all parts of the county. No
person was injured so far as learned. Barns were blown down, crops injured
and trees leveled. The windmills were blown down quite generally. One firm
in Monticello alone as a result of the storm, erected over one hundred and fifty
windmills.
This was the last destructive windstorm to visit Jones county.
EARTHQUAKE HISTORY.
Seismic disturbances are usually credited to mountainous regions, and future
generations might not believe that the sensations peculiar to such disturbances
have been experienced in Jones county.
The first earthquake disturbances experienced in the county of which any
remark has been made, occurred about twenty years ago. It occasioned more than
passing notice, though no injury resulted other than the shock to nervous people.
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The next earthquake experience occurred on May 26, 1909. In describing
this we cannot do better than quote from two reports, one taken from The Mon-
iicello Express ond the other from The Wyoming Journal, each published the day
following the seismic disturbances.
The Monticello Express: "Monticello experienced a distinct earthquake shock,
yesterday morning, the 26th inst., at 8:40 o'clock, which lasted several seconds.
The direction of the disturbance was north and south. It was not generally ob-
served by those on the street, but people in the second stories of buildings noticed
the disturbance. At both the schoolhouses it was observed. In the second story
of the Lovell block it shook the windows and produced the feeling produced by a
strong wind blowing against a frame house. The typesetting machine in The Ex-
press office gave its operators the sensation of strong movements. At the racket
store some articles were shaken from the shelves, and from different parts of town
came experiences that settled the character of the disturbances. During the day
came the news that the earthquake was general throughout the upper Mississippi
valley. No particular damage was done, aside from broken dishes, but in some
places, particularly Dubuque and some Illinois points the movements were so
strong that the occupants of factories and tall buildings rushed out into the streets
in alarm. We had the same kind of an experience in Monticello a little more
than twenty years ago, when the earthquake was credited with the cracking of
cement lining of the city reservoir. Some amusing incidents were connected with
the seismic movement. Dr. Hefner, who had just adjusted his furnace, supposed
it had blown up and rushed into the cellar to find it behaving beautifully. George
Guyan asked his partner to drive out the dog he thought was shaking the table.
Over in Richland Lester Winner was eating his breakfast, and the table shook
so violently he asked his wife to drive the cow away for he was sure she had got-
ten into the yard again, and was rubbing herself against the house."
The Wyoming Journal : "An earthquake shock caused many of our people to
sit up and take notice yesterday morning about 8:30. The seismic disturbance
was of short duration, and did no serious damage to property, but the vibrations
of buildings were startling in the extreme. The writer was in his office in the
second story of the Williams block and the thought at the rumble and vibration
of the walls was that a heavily loaded truck was being run over the floor of the
store below, causing the effect noticed, but the fact that it was a new one in
energy and never before experienced raised a question. Enquiry disclosed the
fact that others had realized that the earth under them had been a little unsteady
at the same time. Dr. E. N. Stoffel was standing in his office leaning against his
office safe talking to a friend when the shock came. The safe rocked sufficiently
to cause alarm and he got away from it. Glass cases rattled and things looked
like a moving picture show for a time of a few seconds. In the Kettlesen store
the crockery rattled and there was considerable vibration. At the lumber office
of L. W. Butler, Mr. Butler was sitting talking to a traveling man and both were
alarmed at the shaking the building received.
"Will R. Eldred, who was confined to his bed in the home of his mother on
the hill by reason of an accident the previous day, says his bed shook so he
thought there was some one under it giving him a scare and peeked under the bed
for the trouble.
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"The quake was also felt at Onslow and north in the country as far as the
home of James Hamilton in Clay township reports of the quake come in."
SOME EARLY FLOOD HISTORY.
Jones county has been more fortunate than some of her sister counties in the
amount of damage done by storms and floods. The county can also feel just
cause for congratulation that the elements and powers have not demonstrated
their full destructiveness in our midst. This is especially so when history has been
obliged to record such disastrous inflictions of the elements, not only in the mere
loss of property, but in the loss of human life in other parts of the country, though
far removed in point of miles from our favored and prosperous county. We
have had some floods and storms, however, and in order to preserve the record,
we give herewith the history as we find it written.
The first flood was June 7, 1851. After raining several hours, the water rose
in the Maquoketa, overflowed its banks, and the low, flat lands on both sides of
the river were inundated. Joseph Clark, at this time, was living in a log house
on the bank of Kitty Creek, just north of lot No. 41 of the original plat of Mon-
ticello, and southeast of the house later occupied by August Grassmeyer, on the
road to Dubuque. The water came into Mr. Clark's house and put the fire out in
the fireplace, and floated the partly consumed wood around the room, and the
family had to seek other quarters for safety. At this date the Western Stage
Company were running a daily line of stage coaches from Dubuque to Iowa City,
and all passengers and the mails had to be transferred across the water in a row
boat. The town lot where W. H. Proctor's brick and stone store stands was all
covered with several feet of water, and the flood at one time reached Main street
in front of the Monticello House. The water that fell in the rain gauge at this
storm measured three and seventy-five hundredths inches.
The second flood occurred August i, 1858. The water at this time was fully
as high as that of the flood before mentioned. The west end of the then wooden
bridge over the Maquoketa river gave way and dropped on the bank, and the
planks of all three of the spans were floated down stream on their way to the
Mississippi. The mail and passengers had to be transferred as heretofore, and
were taken in at the foot of Main street, near Mr. Doxsee's residence, and landed
at the foot of the sand-hill in East Monticello. Frequently, the through mail
bags and paper sacks were enough to fill one boat load. There were six families
living at East Monticello at this date, viz: Dewey, McDonald, Moulton, N. P.
Starks. Houser and Eldredge, and they had to depend upon the ferry-boat for
their mail and groceries for several days. A number of the emigrant teams were
water-bound, and had to board with the families for a few days on the east side.
Total amount of water- fall, four and fifty hundredths.
The third was June 28 and 29, 1865. At this storm, three and eighty hun-
dreths inches of water fell in the two days, and the water in the river came into
the third story of the East Monticello flouring mills. The wooden bridge on the
military road was only saved by anchoring it to the large cottonwood trees
above on the banks of the stream with ropes and chains. The planks of the
second bridge did not escape the flood, but were swept down-stream by the water.
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The water was high enough to have run into the public cistern on Main street if
the reservoir had been built there at that date. Monticello celebrated the 4th of
July this year, and the committee had selected the bottom land on Kitty Creek,
near the river, for the speaker's stand ; but it was changed on account of the water
to the vacant lots on the north side of town, where Mrs. Langworthy later
lived. The orator of the day, Hon. O. P. Shiras of Dubuque, was obliged, on ac-
count of the washout in the railroad, to come and return with a livery team.
The approaches to the railway bridge north of town were washed away and dam-
aged so that trains could not pass over the bridge for several days.
The fourth flood was July 4 and 5, 1876. There has perhaps been no rain
storm during the entire history of the county which has been the subject of re-
mark more than the 4th of July rain of 1876. In fact all storms even in the
modem day are compared with the "Centennial rain.'' The rain commenced to
fall on July 4th about 9 o'clock p. m., and the rain continued to fall for seven
hours, although a large share of the three and one-half inches of water-fall was
landed in about three hours. The water only came up to the junction of First
and East Locust streets, near Petersen's residence, but it came with such violence
as to wash away the approaches to the railroad bridge over Kitty Creek, just
above the falls, and taking out the wagon and foot bridge between the two falls,
root and branch, flooding all the stock yards, drowning several head of hogs be-
longing to Mayor Wales and William Peterson. Both iron bridges over tfie Ma-
quoketa stood their ground, although they were surrounded by an ocean of water,
and were not reached for several days. The wooden bridge at the foot of First
street, over the creek near Skelley's, was securely anchored to the heavy stone
abutments, and stood the test admirably, although it was several feet under water
for hours. The water had been as high in the creek and river a number of times,
but not as destructive to roads and bridges as at this overflow. All four of these
rainstorms were accompanied by the most terrific thunder and lightning, and
more or less wind, and everything trembled before the onward march of the
storm.
The fifth flood was July 9, 1879. The rain began to fall a few minutes before
midnight, previous to the morning of the 9th. A huge bank of clouds, accom-
panied with thunder and lightning, was piled up in the northwest, and the wind
blowing a gentle breeze from the southwest for hours previous to the commence-
ment of the rain ; in fact, the whole of the previous day had shown unmistakable
signs of the coming storm; and when the wind fiercely veered around to the
northwest, the storm had fairly commenced — one huge storm cloud passing over,
only to be closely followed by another, fully charged with electricity and sat-
urated with rain ; and when it ceased raining at 10 a. m., fully five and sixty hun-
dredths inches had been caught in the rain gauge, making one and ten hun-
dredths inches more than had ever before been measured at one storm during
the history up to that time. The water in the Maquoketa River and in Kitty Creek
overflowed the banks, and reached the highest watermark about noon of the
same day. The water covered the lower creek bridge, both slaughter houses and
stock yards, and stood in the street opposite Mr. Peterson's stable. The water
in the river came nearly up to Mr. Grassmeyer's lot at the foot of Main street.
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and was a little higher than in the flood of 1876, but the water in the creek fell
short of the mark for the same storm. But little damage was done to the roads
and bridges in the township. The railroads were only slightly damaged, and
were all in running order the following day. No damage was done in town, be-
yond the filling of several cellars with water, and washing away the stock yards'
fences.
A hailstorm took place in 1863. The flood of hail on the afternoon of July
30th will be long remembered by those who experienced its destructiveness. For
a week previous, the weather had been extremely warm and sultry, and the whole
day had shown unmistakable indications of rain. About 4 o'clock p. m., a shower
of rain fell with a heavy wind from the west, and was followed in a few min-
utes by a battering shower of hail. After destroying all the glass on the west
side of the buildings, the wind veered around to the east, destroying also all the
glass on the north and east sides of most of the buildings. The marks of the
falling hail on the fences, buildings and trees were plainly visible for several
years afterward. When the storm passed over town, it was about two miles
wide, and extended from East Monticello to Stony Creek, near the south line of
the township, and all crops and shrubbery embraced within the limits of the storm
were battered oflP close to the ground. Upward of five hundred lights of glass
were smashed, and most of the families had to wait until the dealer, Mr. Hickok
sent to t)ubuque for a new stock of glass. One resident lost one hundred lights
of glass from his dwelling house, and there was not an inch square of dry floor
in the building. The family had to seek shelter and safety for the time being in
the cellar.
A thunder storm occurred August 28, 1879. ^^ was the most terrific storm
of the kind experienced in Monticello during the decade previous. It commenced
a few minutes before midnight, and lasted for five hours, and during the whole
of this time there was an incessant roar of the heaviest thunder, one peal fol-
lowing another in such rapid succession that there was one continual crash of
thunder, and the lightning was one continual flash of electric light. The whole
town was illuminated brighter than the noonday sun. At the close of the storm,
three inches of rain was measured in the rain-gauge. With one exception, this is
the greatest rainfall known in years. No very serious damage was done, neither
by the electricity, nor the water, in Monticello. A large shade tree in front of
H. H. Monroe's residence on North Cedar street was struck by the lightning;
also Frank Whittemore's dwelling near by, and several telegraph poles in the south
part of town, and a dozen in the north part of town. The telegraph office, in the
Union Depot, was more or less damaged. Mr. Dickerson's house, two miles east
of town, was struck and slightly damaged. The steeple of the Springer Memor-
ial church, Mr. Dirk's barn and C. E. Marvin's creamery were struck and slightly
damaged. Mr. Curtis Stone lost a stack of hay east of town. T. H. Bowen lost
a large bam and contents at Sand Springs, and a cow belonging to Mr. Law-
rence, of Wayne township, four miles south of Monticello, was killed. The water
burst Mr. Suhr's cistern in his new block on First street, and flooded his cellar.-
The water washed out the newly packed in dirt from the water-works* trenches,
filled up all the cisterns and not a few wells in town.
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The history of the storms after this period is more or less fragmentary. Upon
the removal of the meteorological station from Monticello, no record has been
kept other than is recorded in memory and preserved in the newspapers. There
have been a number of severe rain and also hail storms during the past thirty
years, seme of them doing considerable damage, destroying crops, washing out
bridges and flooding the lowlands. The writer remembers a storm which oc-
curred in the nig^t in July, 1903. Small bridges suffered severely, and many of
the larger bridges required immediate repair before they were safe for travel.
But in the record of high water, the mark set in the certennial rain of July 4,
1876, has never been reached in Jones county.
There is a general tendency among observers of weather conditions to mag-
nify the last storm as being the worst in their experience, to declare the cold spell
to be the most severe in their history, or to insist that the dry spell is the longest
known by the oldest inhabitant. This is a general weakness and for this reasoiii
it is difficult, in the absence of some accurate record, to state which have been
the worst storms in a given period. The winter of 1908-9 has been declared by
the oldest inhabitants to have been the most mild winter in their experience and
that the spring of 1909, was the latest and coldest. The spring of 1907 beyond
question was the coldest and most backward in recent years. In the history of
Rome township is cited the instance of an ox team being driven on the ice on the
Wapsie with scmie logs on April 10, 1842. These diversities exist and will con-
tinue during the frailty of nature.
STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICERS FROM JONES COUNTY.
Jones county has been well represented in the state legislature from the days
of the first constitutional convention in 1844 down to the present time. We have
had several men of considerably more than the average ability of legislators, and
all have been worthy of the honor.
Jones county has been honored several times with a state office, and once with
a national office. William H. Holmes of Jones county was state treasurer from
January i, 1863, to January i, 1867. John Russell was state auditor from
January i, 1871 to January i, 1875. John Russell was speaker of the house of
representatives during the twelfth general assembly which convened January 13,
1868. Henry D. Sherman of Monticello, the pioneer dair3rman of Jones county,
was one of the first state dairy commissioners, 1886-1890. Benjamin F. Shaw of
Anamosa, was one of the first state fish inspectors, 1874-1882. S. S. Farwell of
Monticello enjoys the distinction of being the only Jones county man sent to
Washington, D. C, as a United States representative, 1881-1883, forty-seventh
congress.
Jones county has had and still has plenty of good timber out of which state
and federal officers are made. When the time comes, Jones county will be pre-
pared with as many men and as good men as the occasion may require.
JONES COUNTY IN THE LEGISLATURE.
On October 7, 1844, the first constitutional convention convened at Iowa City,*
the representative from Jones county being John Taylor. The constitution
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adopted by this convention was rejected by the people at an election held August
4, 1845, by a vote of seven thousand, two hundred and thirty-five for, to seven
thousand, six hundred and fifty-six against.
The second constitutional convention convened at Iowa City, May 4, 1846,
Jones county being represented by Sylvester G. Matson. The constitution adopted
by the convention was adopted by the people at an election held on the 3d day of
August, 1846, by a vote of nine thousand, four hundred and ninety-two for, to
nine thousand and thirty-six against. This constitution was presented to con-
gress in December, 1846, and on the 28th day of the same month Iowa was ad-
mitted as a state of the Union.
The third constitutional convention met at Iowa City, January 19, 1857, Al-
bert H. Marvin representing Jackson and Jones counties. The constitution
adopted by the convention was sanctioned by the people at the election held Au-
gust 3, 1857, by a vote of forty thousand, three hundred and eleven in favor,to
thirty-eight thousand, six hundred and eighty-one against, and by proclamation
of the governor took effect September 3, 1857.
In The Territorial Council. 1838-40, Cedar, Jones, Linn and Johnson coun-
ties sent Charles Whittlesey; 1840-42 Jones and Linn counties were repre-
sented by George Greene; 1842-44, Jones and Linn counties sent John P. Cook;
1844-46, Jones and Linn counties were represented by William Abbe.
State Senators. 1846-50, Jones and Jackson counties were represented by
Philip P. Bradley; 1850-54, Jones and Jackson counties sent Nathan G. Sales;
1854-58, Jones county sent William H. Holmes ; 1858-62, Jones and Jackson coun-
ties sent Joseph Mann; 1862-64, Jones county sent W. H. Holmes ; 1864-66, Jones
county sent Ezekiel Cutler; 1866-70, Jones county sent S. S. Farwell; 1870-72,
Jones county sent John McKean; 1872-78, Jones county sent George W. Lovell;
1878-80, Henry C. Carr of Cedar county represented Jones and Cedar counties
in the senate, the two counties being then combined in a senatorial district ; 1880-
84, Jones and Cedar counties, John Russell ; 1884-88, John C. Chambers ; 1888-92,
E. B. Bills; 1892-96, J. A. Green, Stone City; 1896-1900, F. O. Ellison, Anamosa;
1900-04: John T. Moffit, Tipton; 1904-09, Robert C. Stirton, Monticello; 1909-,
H. R. Chapman, Durant. The thirty-first general assembly, chapter 36 (1906)
provided that senators in the general assembly to succeed those whose terms were
about to expire should be elected in even-nimibered years instead of odd-numbered
years.
State Representatives. 1838-39, Robert G. Roberts, from Cedar, Jones.
Johnson and Linn counties ; 1839-40, George H. Walworth, from Jones and Linn
counties; 1840-41, Harman Van Antwerp and George H. Walworth, from Jones
and Linn counties ; 1841-42, Thomas Denson and Samuel P. Higginson from
Linn and Jones counties ; 1842-43, George H. Walworth and John C. Berry, from
Jones and Linn counties; 1843-44, George H. Walworth and Robert Smythe,
from Jones and Linn counties ; 1844-46, Joseph K. Snyder and John Taylor,
from Jones, Linn and Cedar counties ; 1846-48, Sylvester G. Matson and George F.
Green, from Jones and Jackson counties; 1848-50, D. A. Mahoney and N. G.
Sales, from Jones and Jackson counties; 1850-52, R. B. Wykoff and John E.
Goodenow, from Jones and Jackson counties; 1852-54, John Taylor, from Jones
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county; 1854-56, W. H. Holmes, from Jones county: 1856-58, W. H. Holmes,
fr(»n Jones county, and William Thomas, from Jackson and Jones counties ; 1858-
60, H. Steward, from Jones county, and W. S. Johnson, from Jones and Jackson
counties; 1860-62, John Taylor, from Jones county; 1862-64, Otis Whittemore
and John Russell; 1864-66, John Russell and J. H. Fuller; 1866-70, John McKean
and John Russell; 1870-72, John Russell and 1874-76, P. J. Bonewitz and John
Tasker; 1874-76, John W. Moore and G. O. Bishop; 1876-78, William T.
Shaw and George W. Lathrop; 1878-82, Silas M. Yoran; 1882-86, M. H.
Calkins, Wyoming; 1886-88, Geo. W. Lathrop, Oxford Junction; 1888-92,
Gerard Eilers, Monticello ; 1892-94, Nathan Potter, Olin ; 1894-96, F. O. Ellison,
Anamosa; 1896-98, A. M. Loomis, Wyoming; 1898-1900, W. D. Sheean, Ana-
mosa; 1900-04, F. J. Sokol, Onslow; 1904-07, R. M. Peet, Anamosa; 1907-09,
Qifford B. Paul, Anamosa; 1909 — , Wm. M. Byerly, Jackson township.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
The roster herewith presented is as near complete as the records give it.
These are the officials whom Jones county has been delighted to honor during its
seventy years of organized existence. With but very few exceptions the men
who have been selected to hold official position have been men of ability and in-
tegrity. Not only have they been competent to perform the duties which the
office imposed, they have also been men who were well worthy of the trust and
who have almost to a man, retired from the office with even more of the con-
fidence and respect of their fellowmen, than when they were elected. Future
generations can look back on the political and official history with pride and
satisfaction.
"In the beginning" of the county government, the official matters were under
the control and supervision of a board of three men called County Commis-
sioners, viz: —
1839— Thomas S. Den§on, Charles P. Hutton and .
1840 — H. G. Seely, Thomas S. Denson and Charles P. Hutton.
1841— Charies P. Hutton, H. G. Seely and Thomas S. Denson.
1842 — George H. Brown, Charles P. Hutton and H. G. Seely.
1843 — William Dalton, Charles P. Hutton, Ambrose Parsons.
1844 — ^William Dalton, Adam Kramer and Ambrose Parsons.
1845 — George G. Banghart, Adam Kramer and William Dalton.
1846 — ^Adam Kramer, George G. Banghart and M. H. Hutton.
1847 — Washington Lamb, George G. Banghart and M. H. Hutton.
1848 — M. H. Hutton, Washington Lamb and Charles L. D. Crockwell.
1849 — ^Washington Lamb, Thomas McNally and C. L. D. Crockwell.
1850— Thomas Green, C. L. D. Crockwell and Thomas McNally.
In the year 1851, the board of county commissioners was superseded by the
county judge, an office created at that time by the state legislature. The man-
agement of the county affairs passed into the hands of the county judge who sub-
stantially, performed all the duties previously imposed on the board of county
commissioners.
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County Judges— 1851-55, Josq)h Mann; 1855-57, G. C Mudgett; 1857-59,
J. J. Ruber; 1859-61, William H. Holmes.
In January, 1861, the office of county judge was so modified as to have juris-
diction only of probate and kindred business. The conduct and management of
county affairs passed into the hands of a board of county supervisors, composed
of one supervisor elected from each township in the county. Four regular meet-
ings were held annually.
Supervisors — 1861, John Russell, W. H. Hickman, Thomas J. Peak, M. C
Thompson, M. H. Nickisson, Philo Norton, D. N. Monroe, Daniel Leery, H. T
Cunningham, William Leech, Thomas Green, John Decious, Benjamin Freeman,
A. A. Reilly, William Hogg, Lawrence Schoonover.
1862— S. Hopkins, William H. Hickman, D. Graham, T. O. Bishop, D. N.
Monroe, L. D. Brainard, Benjamin Freeman, A. A. Reilly, William Leech,
Thomas McNally, H. T. Cunningham, M. C. Thompson, P. G. Bonewitz, M. C.
Walters, John McLees, Philo Norton.
1863 — P. G. Bonewitz, Philo Norton, Samuel H. Clark, M. C. Walters,
J. Tallman, Joseph Apt, S. Hopkins, David Graham, Franklin Dalby. B. K.
Bronson, A. S. Hale, John Waite, Thomas McNally, John McLees, S. P. South-
wick, T. O. Bishop.
1864— S. H. Clark, F. M. Hicks, P. G. Bonewitz, Franklin Dalby, John Tall-
man, Joseph Apt, E. B. Alderman, B. K. Bronson, Philo Norton, A. S. Hale,
T. O. Bishop, S. P. Southwick, James McDaniel, Leman Palmer, Thomas Mc-
Nally, John Waite.
1865— S. P. Southwick, A. S. Hale, Leman Palmer, L. C. Niles, E. B. Alder-
man, John Waite, W. H. Walworth, Franklin Dalby, John Thompson, S. H.
Qark, P. G. Bonewitz, D. L. Blakeslee, Thomas McNally, Joseph Apt, James
McDaniel, T. O. Bishop.
1866 — F. Dawson, Michael Kenney, Leman Pabner, A. H. Marvin, W. T.
Fordham, P. G. Bonewitz, A. S. Hale, H. P. Southwick, J. W. Jenkins, E. B.
Alderman, T. O. Bishop, S. M. Johnson L. C. Niles, John Waite, J. Thompson,
S. H. Clark.
1867— J. W. Jenkins, T. O. Bishop, E. B. Alderman, S. M. Johnson, A. H.
Marvin, P. G. Bonewitz, H. Steward, W. T. Fordham, A. J. Dalby, A. G. Pang-
bum, G. W. Lathrop, M. C. Thompson, William M. Starr, J. Sutherland, Francis
Dawson, Michael Kenny.
1868— M. C. Thompson, William M. Starr, E. E. Brown, Joseph Cool, T. O.
Bishop, A. J. Dalby, Anson Hayden, A. G. Pangbum, A. A. Reilly, Francis Daw-
son, H. Steward, John Sutherland, Michael Kenny, R. G. Bonewitz, W. T.
Fordham, S. M. Yoran.
1869 — Hiram Steward, J. A. Crawford, John Wilson, E. E. Brown, H. C
Metcalf, T. O. Bishop, P. V. Farley, A. Hayden. A. G. Pangbum, S. M. Yoran,
A. A. Reilly, B. Connell, John Sutherland, Michael Kenny, P. G. Bonewitz, John
Tasker.
1870 — George W. Lovell, J. A. Crawford, John Tasker, A. G. Pangbum,
David Grafft, J. S. Lathrop, Ezekiel Oliphant, Hiram Steward, M. C. Walters,
Peter V. Farley, D. Gardner, A. A. Reilly, John Sutherland, T. O. Bishop, Thomas
McNally, H. C. Metcalf.
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In 1870, the supervisor system was changed so as to place the business in the
hands of three men, who should be chosen for a term of three years, from the
county at large, one new member being elected each year, after the manner of
the former county commissioners.
1871 — ^Hiram Steward, John Tasker, S. M. Yoran.
1872 — ^A. G. Pangbum, S. M. Yoran, Hiram Steward.
1873 — S. M. Yoran, John Waite and Hiram Steward.
By vote of the electors of the county in October, 1872, the number of super-
visors increased to five members. There has been no change in the ntunber of
members down to the year 1909.
1874 — ^J. A. Crawford, Hiram Steward, G. G. Banghart, John Sutherland,
W. J. Brainard.
1875 — G. G. Banghart, W. J. Brainard, J. A. Crawford, Joseph Cool, Hiram
Steward.
1876— M. C. Thompson, F. Griswold, W. J. Bramard, S. H. Clark, G. G.
Banghart.
1877— S. H. Qark, M. C. Walters, M. C. Thompson, H. C. Freeman,
F. Griswold.
1878— F. Griswold, H. C. Freeman, M. C. Thompson, S. H. Clark, M. C.
Walters.
1879 — M. C. Walters, S. H. Clark, H. C. Freeman, L. Schoonover, John
Bates.
1880 — S. H. Qark, H. C. Freeman, John Bates, J. H. Smith, L. Schoonover.
1881 — ^H. C. Freeman, L. Schoonover, John Bates, J. H. Smith, W. M. Starr.
1882 — H. C. Freeman, John Bates, J. H. Smith, John Pfeifer, A. L. Fairbanks.
1883 — ^John Bates, John Pfeifer, A. L. Fairbanks, J. A. Bronson,
P. Washington.
1884 — ^A. L. Fairbanks, John Bates, John Pfeifer, P. Washington, J. A.
Bronson.
1885 — ^J. A. Bronson, A. L. Fairbanks, John Pfeifer, Pat Washington, D. E.
Pond.
1886— A. L. Fairbanks, John Pfeifer, D. E. Pond, E. E. Brown, Robert In-
giis.
1887— Jdm Pfeifer, A. L. Fairbanks, E. E. Brown, Robert Inglis, D. E.
Pond.
1888— F. S. Dumont, Robert Qark, S. Hickman, M. McLaughlin, W. H.
Glick.
1889— G. H. George, W. H. Glick, Robert Qaric, S. Hickman, F. S. Dumont.
1890— W. H. Glick, G. H. George, S. Hickman, F. S. Dumont, Robert Qark.
1891— G. H. George, E. G. Peet, A. Hans, W. H. Glick, Robert Qark.
1892— G. H. George, E. G. Peet, E. A. Osborne, A. Hand, W. H. Glick.
1893— Matt Noyes, E. A. Osborne, W. H. Glick, F. J. Sokol, E. G. Peet.
1894— W. H. Glick, F. J. Sokol, Matt Noyes, E. A. Osborne, E. G. Peet
1895— F. J. Sokol, T. H. Dunn, E. G. Peet, Matt Noyes, W. H. Glick.
1896— W. H. Glick, T. H. Dunn, E. G. Peet, F. J. Sokol, Wm. Sutherland.
1897— T. H. Dunn, E. G. Peet, W. H. Glick, Wm. Sutherland, F. J. Sokol.
1898— T. H. Dunn, E. G. Peet, Wm. Sutherland, F. J. Sokol,' J. R. Clay.
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1899— F. J. Sokol, Wm. Sutherland, D. A. Clay, T. H. Dunn, E. G. Peet.
1900— T. H. Dunn, Wm. Sutherland, F. J. Brainard, D. A. Day, Robert
Scroggie.
1901— Wm. Sutherland, R. A. Scroggie, D. A- Qay, T. H. Dunn, F. J. Brain-
ard.
1902— R. A. Scroggie, Wm. Sutherland, T. H. Dunn, F. J. Brainard, D. A.
Clay.
1903— R. M. Peet, Wm. Sutherland, T. H. Dunn, R. A. Scroggie, D. A. Qay.
1904 — ^A. Matthieson, Wm. Sutherland, R. M. Peet, R. A. Scroggie, D. A.
Clay.
1905— A. McDonald, D. A. Clay, R. A. Scroggie, A. Matthieson, R. M. Peet
1906 — D. A. Qay, A. McDonald, A. Matthieson, R. A. Scroggie, R. M. Peet
1907— Matt Noyes, John Hale, T. J. Finn, Wm. M. Byerly, John Thomscn.
1908 — ^John Hale, Wm. Byerly, T. J. Finn, Matt Noyes, John Thomsen.
1909 — ^John Thomsen, John Hale, Matt Noyes, T. J. Finn, C. J. Murfield.
Clerks of Commissioners' Court. 1841-44, William Hutton ; 1844-47, Bar-
rett Whittemore ; 1847-51, C. C. Rockwell.
Clerks of District Court. 1841-48, William Hutton; September, 1848-50.
John D. Walworth; September, 1850-52, J. A. Secrist; September, 1852 to April
1856, W. W. Wilson; April 1856, to September 1856, David Kinert; September
1856 to January 1861, E. T. Mullet; January 1861 to January 1867, G. P. Deitz;
January 1867-75, J. C. Deitz; January 1875-81, B. H. White; January 1881-87,
J. H. Chapman; January 1887-93, R- M. Bush; January 1893-95, W. D. Sheean;
January 1895 ^o December 1896, J. B. McQueen ; December 1896 to January 1903,
J. A. Hartman; January 1903 to January 1909, J. H. Ramsey; January 1909 — ,
H. G. A. Harper, the present incumbent.
Sheriffs of Jones County. 1839-44, Hugh Bowen; September 1844-46, M.
Q. Simpson ; September 1846-50, G. B. Laughlin ; April 1852 to September 1853,
F. M. Hicks; September 1853-57, Samuel Lawrence; September 1857 to Janu-
ary i860, N. S. Noble; January 1860-62, H. H. Metcalf ; January 1862-68, David
Kinert; January 1868-74, O. B. Crane; January 1874-76, A. J. Byerly; January
1876-82, P. O. Babcock; January 1882-88, T. M. Wilds; January 1888-94, W. A.
Hogan ; January 1894-98, P. O. Babcock ; January 1898-1904, Hiram Arnold ; Jan-
uary', 1904 — , W. A. Hogan, the present incumbent.
Recorders. 1841-42, Clark Joslin; September 1842-47, Edmond Booth;
September 1847-49, William Sterling; September 1849-51, Ira B. Ryan; Septem-
ber 1851-53, Samuel T. Buxton; September 1853-57, Jonas J. Huber; September
^857 to January i860, F. L. McKean; January 1860-65, John D. Walworth;
January 1865-69, J. S. Perfect; January 1869-75, Richard Daniels; January
1875-81, R. L. Duer; January 1881-86, H. Van Dusen; January 1886-93, Jas.
Robertson; January 1893-95, S. H. Brainard; January 1895-1901, Miles Cock;
January 1901-07, C. W. B. Derr ; January 1907-09, H. G. Halsey ; January 1909 — ,
Earl Boyer, the present incumbent.
Treasurers. Prior to 1865, the recorder performed the duties of treasurer.
January 1866-68, W. Cronkhite; January 1868-74, L. Schoonover; January 1874-
76, J. H. Dickey; January 1876-82, Thomas E. Patterson; January 1882-88,
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S. L. Easterly ; January 1888-93, F- M. Rhodes; January 1893-1900, J. W. Waitc;
January 190007, J. F. Petcina ; January 1907 — , W. K. Pearson, the present in-
cumbent.
Auditors, A portion of the auditor's present duties were performed by the
county judge from 1861 to 1870. The first auditor was elected October, 1869;
January 1870-74, Charles Kline; January 1874-82, Robert Dott; January 1882-
88, S. Needham ; January 1888-90, Ossian Fakes ; January 1890-95, W. A. Mil-
ler; January 1895 to July 1897, H. S. Richardson; July 1897 to January 1903,
W. S. Barker ; January, 1903-09, W. J. Mills ; January 1909—, Louis Gardner, the
present incumbent.
County Superintendents, This office was established in 1859. January 1860-
62, B. F. Shaw ; January 1862-64, H. D. Sherman ; January 1864-66, D.
Harper ; January 1866-68, L. Carpenter ; January 1868-70, J. R. Stillman ; Janu-
ary 1870-72, Alexander Hughes; January 1872-74, E. B.- Champlin; January
1874-76, G. O. Johnson; January 1876-82, O. E. Aldrich; January 1882-83, J. B.
L. Caldwell; January 1883-86, Luther Foster; January 1886-90, Geo. E. Wood;
January 1888-94, E. R. Moore; January 1894-1900, T. J. Cowan; January 1900-
07, Qifford B. Paul; January 1907 — , Miss Catherine Maurice, the present
incumbent.
County Attorneys, The office of county attorney was established in 1886.
Prior to this time, the duties of the office were performed by the district attorney
of the eighth judicial district. F. O. Ellison, at present judge in the eighteenth
judicial district, and Jones county resident judge, was elected to the newly cre-
ated office of county attorney in the fall of 1886. January 1887-92, F. O. Ellison ;
January 1892-95, E. H. Hicks; January 1895-1900, M. W. Herrick; January
1900-02, E. E. Reed; January 1902-04, C. J. Cash; January IQ04-06, A. G. Ban-
der; January 1906 — , C. J. Cash, the present incumbent.
Coroners. No record exists prior to 1851. September 1851-53, G. H. Ford;
September 1853-54, Alexander Rooney; September 1854-55, William Haddock;
September 1855-57, Alexander Delong; September 1857-59, M. H. Byerly; Sep-
tember 1859 to January 1864, E. Dalby ; January 1864-76, V. C. Williston ; Jan-
uary 1876-78, George W. Birdsall; January 1878-80, V. C. Williston; January
1880-82, W. W. Calkins; January 1882-86, Z. G. Isbell; January 1886-88, J. M.
Paul; January 1888-91, Z. G. Isbell; January 1891-94, W. A. Scott; January
1894-1904, T. B. Kent; January 1904 — , B. H. Chamberlain, the present
incumbent.
County Surveyors, L. A. Simpson, was probably the first to hold this office.
From his time until 1851, there is no reliable record. September 1851-53, Moses
A. Dark; September 1853-55, E. K. Johnson; September 1855-57, Lewis W.
Steward; September 1857 to January i860, George Welsh; January 1860-62,
John Leery; January 1862-64, Henry D. Smith; January 1864-66, F. Merriman;
January 1866-72, D. L. Blakeslee; January 1872-74, R. O. Peters; January
1874-76, T. J. Townsend; January 1876-80, O. Burlingame; January 1880-81,
C. F. McGrew ; January 1881-82, T. J. Townsend; January 1882-86, R. O. Peters;
January 1886-97, H. M. Jeffries; January 1897-99, R. O. Peters; January
1899 — , J. F. Whalen, the present incumbent.
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COUNTY ORGANIZATION, 1909.
Supervisors' Organusation.
John Thomsen, chairman.
Committees :
Finance — ^Matt Noyes, C. J. Murfield.
Poor farm — ^John Hale, John Thomsen.
Roads and bridges — ^T. J. Finn, John Hale.
Equalization — T. J. Finn, John Hale.
Claims— T. J. Finn, C. J. Murfield.
Poor outside poor farm — Matt Noyes, C. J. Murfield.
Salaries — ^T. J. Finn.
Public buildings — Matt Noyes.
School fund — Matt Noyes.
Bonds — ^John Thomsen.
District road and bridge committees:
John Hale — Cass, Fairview and Castle Grove.
Matt Noyes — ^Lovell, Scotch Grove and Wayne.
T. J. Finn — Richland, Washington and Gay.
C. J. Murfield — Greenfield, Rome and Jackson.
John Thomsen — Madison, Wyoming, Hale and Oxford.
County Officers.
Auditor — Louis Gardner; deputy. Miss Reva M. Crow.
Qerk district court — H. G. A. Harper ; deputy, L. A. Miller.
Sheriff— W. A. Hogan ; deputy, Earl Miller.
Recorder — Earl Boyer; deputy. Miss Anna Hanson.
Treasurer — ^W. K. Pearson; deputy, I. H. Brasted.
County attorney — C. J. Cash.
Superintendent of schools — Miss Catherine Maurice.
County coroner — ^Dr. B. H. Chamberlain.
County surveyor — ^J. F. Whalen.
Steward county home — ^T. A. King.
Janitor courthouse — F. M. Bagley.
Bailiffs— H. E. M. Niles, F. M. Bagley.
Grand jury — John F. W. Allen, Wyoming; J. W. Byerly, Jackson; A. C. Bur-
roughs, Greenfield; M. M. Franks, Madison; E. O. Green, Qay; Charles CJard-
ner. Hale ; Thomas Lister, Fairview ; John H. Lubben, Castle Grove ; John Mc-
Donald, Washington; J. H. Rickels, Lovell; Wm. Sutherland, Scotch Grove;
George A. Wasoba, Oxford.
Judges and Reporters, District Court, 1909.
Hon. F. O. Ellison, judge, Anamosa ; reporter, C. M. Brown.
Hon. W. N. Treichler, Tipton; reporter, H. H. Burr.
Hon. Milo P. Smith, Marion ; reporter, C. W. Sutliff .
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPERS.
The Mondcello Express, The Anamosa Eureka, The Anamosa Journal.
COUNTY EXPENSES.
Every taxpayer of Jcmes county has more than a passing interest in the
amount of money necessary to pay the running expenses of the county govern-
ment. From the tables given below it will be seen that the amoimt of financial
oil needed to keep the wheels of government running smoothly, has increased
more rapidly than the increase of population. The money has been used judi-
ciously and a good account has been given of the outlay. When the increased
valuation of property in the county is considered, the increased expenses are met
without a greatly increased levy.
Tables have been prepared showing the items of expense for the years 1865,
1878, 1895 and 1908, and also showing the total expenses for each year since
1880 down to the present time.
COUNTY EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR 1865.
Supervisors' salaries $ 996.62
Keeping prisoners and jail expenses 423.25
Township officers and assessors 1329.96
Paupers and poorhouse 2669.35
Sheriff, bailiffs and expenses 833.23
Sheriff's fees state cases 129.70
Election expenses 255.00
Fuel, lights, supplies, incidentals, books and stationery 866.91
County printing 726.70
Insane hospital expense 997-77
Juror's fees i375-8o
Witnesses, grand jury 166.10
Attorney fees and expenses, railroad bonds 732.89
Bounties — wolves, wildcats, etc 248.00
Clerk's salary 600.00
Treasurer's salary, per cent, on tax collected 1050.00
Deputy treasurer's salary 800.00
Deputy clerk's salary 800.00
County superintendent 16.90
District attorney fees 46.19
Total 15004.37
COUNTY EXPENSES FOR 1878.
Supervisors' salaries .$ 777-59
Salaries of officers 4400.00
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Witnesses 2138.70
Deaf, dumb and insane 4^545
Jurors 3490.00
Attorneys and reporters II93-50
Sheriff, bailiffs and janitor 1286.33
Jail expenses 96140
Justices and constables 1607.00
Insane hospital 1515.56
Poor outside poor farm 2658.15
Bridges 14473-44
Fuel, lights, repairs 691.28
Assessors, township clerks and trustees 1759-90
Postage and express I34-05
Books and stationery 797 -AP
Printing 1779-53
County superintendent 958.07
Election expenses 456.20
Bounty on scalps wild animals 242.00
Township tax collectors 1140.59
Poor farm ^557-96
Benton county, Johnson calf case 208.00
Copying mortgage index 175-00
Clerk's fees, criminal cases 52.25
Settlement title, Coleman lots 40.00
Miscellaneous 4.10
Total $4590345
COUNTY EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR 1895.
Supervisors' salaries $ 1049.99
County officers 6841.75
County superintendent 1245.61
Jurors 2567.25
Witnesses 1700.36
Sheriff, bailiffs and janitor , 2179.17
Jail expenses 414.45
Attorneys and reporters 589*96
Fuel, light, insurance and repairs 412.48
Postage and express 240.00
Books and stationery 836.12
Printing 2503.64
Justices and constables 769.79
Assessors, township clerks and trustees 4111.66
Election expenses 380.80
County officers supplies 325.61
Bounty on wild animals 121.00
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Poor outside poor farm 6278.24
Poor farm 319578
Deaf, dtmib, feeble minded and insane 5572.68
Bridge 86784S
School books 192341
Soldiers' relief 1136.00
County road 984.65
Orphans' home 479-20
Miscellaneous 334-93
Total $54872.98
COUNTY EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR I908.
Supervisors' salaries $ 1885.55
County officers' salaries 9124.35
Superintendent of schools 659.02
District court jurors 5348.30
Justice court jurors i4-50
District court witnesses 1336.90
Justice court witnesses 66.00
Sheriff, bailiflFs, janitor 3427.32
Jail expenses 545-53
Attorneys and reporters 1829.82
Fuel, light, repairs and insurance 1873.12
Postage and express 274.18
Poor outside poor farm 5574.09
Poor farm 363343
Books and stationery 61849
Printing 2422.24
Justices and constables 548.04
Asessors, township clerks and trustees 2003.66
Election expenses 2635.51
Domestic animals 283.25
County office supplies 1254.90
Bounty, wild animals 654.30
Deaf, dumb, feeble minded and insane 9224.02
Orphans' home 324.00
Soldiers' relief 2075.00
School books 789.16
Bridges 22987.30
Road 6314.41
Inquest 13^00
Quarantine and board of health 754-59
Drainage expenses and miscellaneous 15380
Total $88791.78
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COUNTY EXPENSES SINCE 1880.
1880 $3999473
1881 $33291 35
1882 $49847.39
1883 $45735.58
1884 $5783729
1885 $51748.87
1886 $41984.39
1887 $53132.12
1888 $39412.89
1889 $45690.89*
1890 '. $46255 48
1891 $48520.59
1892 $57083.42
1893 $60223.66
1894 $60653.64
1895 $54872.98
1896 $55252.33
1897 $62278.57
1898 $57439.28
1899 $66230.31
1900 $66115.21
1901 (Bridge expenses $i 1050) $62019.33
1902 (Bridge expenses $ii533) $67663.55
1903 (Bridge expenses $26157) $85209.79
1904 (Bridge expenses $23188) $88180.11
1905 (Bridge expenses $16704) $76266.80
1906 (Bridge expenses $25260) $86835 95
1907 (Bridge expenses $29936) $98232 60
1908 (Bridge expenses $22987) $88791.78
JONES COUNTY ASSESSMENTS.
JONES COUNTY ASSESSMENT FOR 1864.
The following table, though incomplete, was taken from the assessors' books
as found in the auditor's office. Some of the township books were missing. No.
books of an early period could be found in years in which real estate was assessed.
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JONES COUNTY ASSESSMENT FOR 1879.
(The valuations lierewith given, were raised five per cent by the state execu-
tive board.)
Towns and
Townships
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Value
Land
Value of
Town
Lots
Personal
Prop.
Total
Cass 22.908
Castle GroTe 22,7.^1.5
Clay 22,280
Palrview 21.701
Greenfield 22,645
Hale 22.850
Jackson 22,228
Madison 22,106
MontlceUo 22,022
Oxford 22.253
Richland 22.911
Rome 22,172
Scotch Grove 22.443
Washington 22,866
Wayne 22,575
WyominfiT 22,200
Anamosa
Monticello
Olln
St Berry Hill
Wyoming?, town
Totals 358,915
$ 196.073
$
$ 57,745
$ 253,818
204.825
495
58,864
264.184
181.939
3,619
40,828
216.386
205,132
4,504
64.229
273,865
206.484
5,165
106,796
318,445
193,742
70,778
264.520
183,207
30.869
214.076
206,709
19,655
79.396
305,760
215,217
514
52,976
268,707
189,269
14,330
88,254
291,853
171,425
4,665
38,662
214.749
200,925
58,873
259,798
198,765
1,036
51,331
251,132
166.508
36.421
202,929
206,312
5.205
71.282
282.799
191,498
9.060
62.615
263,173
170.225
98,036
268,261
158,466
146,614
305,080
28,887
20,890
2,604
49 777
15.110
17 714
66.600
71.254
137.854
$3,10«.027
$507.5.36
$1,309,317
$4,924,880
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF PROPERTY VALUATIONS.
Towns and Townships
Cass
Castle Grove
Clay
Palrview
Greenfield
Hale
Jackson
Madison
Monticello
Oxford
Richland
Rome
Scotch Grove
Washington
Wayne
Wyoming
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Olln
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Center Jet
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1861
1871
1879
1895
1909
$129,344
$299,267
$253,818
$303,695
$310,050
137,775
278,274
204,184
363,787
831,493
149,124
229,759
216,386
224,704
195,312
165.489
152.207
220.660
273.865
305,742
289.994
311.152
318.445
414,215
415,805
135.109
263,165
264,520
306,187
318,812
142,399
247,1.16
214,076
282,514
299.125
131,275
267,301
305.760
.343.132
342.424
187,951
2.50,330
268,707
306,926
829,457
137.389
280.848
291,853
303.427
356.327
151.078
259.325
214,749
255..354
281,561
144.561
290,598
259,798
317,047
346.009
156,672
285,893
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329,456
121,220
224.882
202,929
223,634
212.167
128,709
308.521
282,799
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427,320
176,525
236,731
263.173
288.050
296.626
296,969
268.261
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217,416
305,080
358.336
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88,903
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75,768
$2,323,827
$4,935,662
$4,924,880
$6,069,252
$6,389,199
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3,155
4,117
3,184
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120,868
37.300
106.432
78,128
44,212
52,652
148,620
79.892
62,392
116.880
6.848
81,160
43,200
218,072
51.746
282,064
206,496
17,588
830,640
184,021
104,730
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10,606
4,912
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HISTORY OF JONES COUNTY 67
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF JONES COUNTY.
The growth and development of Jones county has not been marked by any
sudden change. Its onward progress has been steady. There have been no
booms to break later with disaster and ruin. No feverish haste or stampede has
invited relapse or disaster. Its citizens have come with the idea of making Jones
county their home. They have erected substantial homes and surrounded them-
selves and their families with those necessities which make for comfort and
permanency of home. Jones county has been an agricultural community from the
day when the first inhabitants broke the soil and began the raising of the products
which later were to form the chief crops of the farmer. In the later years, indus-
tries were started, only to perish in the evolution of the times.
Up until about 1875, the population rapidly increased, and since that time,
the population has remained about twenty thousand. The growth of the popula-
tion can best be seen and illustrated by a comparison of the census reports since
1838. In 1838—241; 1840—475; 1844—1,112; 1846—1,758; 1848—1,779; 1849
—2,140; 1850—3,007; 1851-3400; 1852—4,201; 1853—6,075; 1856—9,835;
1859— 13475; 1860—13,306; 1863—13,495; 1865—14,376; 1867—16,228; 1869
—18,113; 1870—19,731; 1873—18,930; 1875—19,166; 1880—21,052; 1885—
19,654; 1890—20,233; 1895—20,088; 1900—21,954; 1905—20,427.
The growth and development of the several towns in the county by compari-
son in years, beginning in 1870 with those towns which were large enough to be
given in the census reports, will make interesting reading, and the same is here-
with given:
AnftmoM .•..«.. T #. r
1870
2,083
1876
1,605
1,687
1880
2,083
1,877
1885
1,874
1,826
620
908
485
1890
2,078
1,938
704
752
519
237
210
1895
2,006
2,079
795
726
648
249
253
1900
2,891
2,104
794
780
692
263
255
158
1905
2,S78
M ontlcello
1,337
2,156
808
O^ord Jaiictioii
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Onslow TTT.-.-T--
679
274
Cant^T Jnnctton . . . . .
214
MarteUe
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COMPARATIVE POPULATION BY TOWNSHIPS, i860 AND 1905.
In the 1905 population, the towns are included in the townships named.
I860 1905 I860 1905
C*«8 597 778 Montlcello 886 2,954
Castle GroTe 559 701 Oxford 697 1,584
dftv 633 626 Richland 862 814
Palrvlew 1,249 4,021 Rome 844 1,568
Greenfield 836 775 Scotch Grove 736 761
Hale 570 833 Washlngrton 1,048 553
Jackson 651 731 Wayne 580 919
Uadlson 565 981 Wyoming 1,144 1,828
Total 1860 13,306
Total 1905 20,427
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68 HISTORY OF JONES COUNTY
CROP AND PRODUCE STATISTICS.
The following statistics in regard to the crops and produce of Jones county,
were taken from the official census of Iowa for 1905 :
Name of Product Acres
Corn 86»534
Wheat 662
Oats 27,486
Barley 7,684
Rye 872
Buckwheat 116
Clover haj 1,185
Timothy hay 50,017
Millet and Hungarian 246
Alfalfa 9
Wild hay 566
Other forage crops
Other farm crops
Clover seed 46
Timothy seed 557
Other grass seeds
Irish potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Sweet corn
Apples
Peaches
Plnms
Cherries
Berries
Chickens 208,505t
Other fowls 12,325t
Eggs 684,547t
Dairy products
Vegetables
Bushels
Value
3,516,690
$1,422,885
7,038
5.892
896,578
274,109
218,713
86,146
11,170
6,342
1,337
1.355
1.621*
9,728
70.388'
427.827
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2,487
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820*
3.636
20.861
4.859
66
304
8.730
4,896
320
154
169,732
54,555
483
216
19,680
7,30o
28,916
23
2.306
6.157
11,900
70,001
11.475
92.321
473.938
23.390
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TAX LEVIES FOR 1909.
The following is the tax levy for Jones county, as fixed by the board of su-
pervisors for 1909. at their regular meeting in September.
CONSOLIDATED TOWNSHIP ROAD LEVY
Mills Mills
State 8.4 Cass 3.5
State university 2 Castle Grove 3.5
Agricultural college 2 Clay 4
State normal 1 Falrvlew 4
County 3.8 Greenfield 8
Poor 1 Hale 3
Bridge 5 Jacicson 4
Road 1 Lovell 4
Soldiers' relief 8 Madison 8.5
School 1 Oxford 8.5
Insane 1 Rome 4
Richland 8
Total 16 Scotch Grove 8.5
Wayne 4
Washington 4
Wyoming 4
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Cass township
Castle GroTe township . . .
Fairview township
Hale township
Richland township
Rome township
Scotch Oroye township . . .
Washington township . . . .
Wayne township
Independent Districts —
Anamosa
Center Junction
Monticello
Olin
Onslow
Oxford Junction
Wyoming
West Cascade
Clay township —
Clay Mills
Defiance Hill
Mineral Valley (no levy).
Pleasast Hill
Sutton
South Temple Hill
Victory
White Oak Grove
Greenfield township —
Bunker Hill
Cherry Grove
Cottage Hill
Center
Hazel Hill
Laurel Hill
Martelle
No. 1
West Comer
White Oak
Jackson township —
Antioch
Black Oak
Brushwood (no levy)
Center
fTazel Green
Midland
Newport
Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Valley
Waggoner
T^vell township —
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. ."^
No. 6
No. 7
No. 8
No. 9
Madison township —
Madison Center
Madison Village
Maple Grove
Niles
Oak Grove
Pine Grove
South Madison
Oxford township —
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 5
No. 6
No. 7
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Baldwin (no levy)
Beers Creek
Pence Ridge
Pleasant Ridge
Monmouth
South Prairie
Valley
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70 HISTORY OF JONES COUNTY
COUNTY SEAT QUESTIONS.
Almost every western county has found the location of a permanent seat of
justice and of government one of the vexatious problems which beset organized
society. In this respect Jones county has not been an exception.
The commissioners appointed by the legislature for the purpose of choosing
a site for a county seat fixed upon a spot one half mile north of the geographical
center of the county, as is related on another page of this history. The town here
laid out received the name of Edinburg. As yet we cannot say with Bums
"Edina! Scotia's darling seat!
All hail thy palaces and towers!"
The palaces and towers did not grow. The soil was obstinate. A quagmire
was its only park ; the wild prairie its only scenery. A visitor thus describes it :
**Edinburgh was a city of grass. Its streets run in all directions. In fact, it
was all street. You could wander over its entire extent without getting sight of
a single wall — brick, stone or wood. The earth below and the blue vault above
were the only signs that the place was intended for human habitation ; and, as all
cities require ornament of some kind, a bounteous nature had planted there and
reared a few scattering trees. Such was Edinburgh in the summer of 1840."
A I05 cabin ^was erected as a courthouse, commodious in size for the then
sparse population of Jones county, in which Judge Wilson dispensed the justice
meted out to territorial settlers by the federal court. In April, 1841, we find by
the commissioners* record, that E. Sutherland was allowed one hundred and forty
dollars for building this primitive capitol building, and a few months later, James
Spencer appears as a claimant for fifty dollars on account of work done in ren-
dering comfortable this same building.
Another log cabin was erected by William Hutton, who was, at that time,
commissioners' clerk, as well as clerk of the district court. This cabin was occu-
pied as a dry goods store and grocery, especially the latter, which was stocked
mostly with **corn juice." The store not proving a profitable investment, was
soon abandoned, and the same enterprising clerk erected a two-story frame hotel,
where he might entertain the judge, jury and witnesses by night after record-
ing their doings by day. This hotel is said to have been furnished with nothing
save a few chairs ; a sheet-iron parlor stove ; the public table made of two rough
boards laid lengthwise ; and by way of night's lodging, a load or two of nice prai-
rie hay, cut a few hours previously, and pitched into the upper windows.
Edinburg seems to have had no advantages over a dozen other places, save
its central location. It manifested no signs of growth, and the people rapidly
became dissatisfied. Other towns were growing up in the county, and it was but
natural that the pioneers should prefer going to some settlement when they visited
the county seat, instead of journeying out into the wilderness. No county officer
made it his residence throughout the year. William Hutton, the clerk, lived at
Farm Creek. The recorder was to be found at Fairview, and probate business
received attention at Cascade. This state of affairs naturally bred discontent.
Nobody was satisfied, not even the county officers themselves. Finally a petition
was sent to the legislature for relief, and a bill was passed in that body, providing
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that the commissioners of Jones county should assemble and name two places to
be voted upon by the citizens, deciding in that way their choice of a county seat.
February 28, 1846, the commissioners held a special meeting at the house of
George G. Banghart for that purpose. By a species of playing into one another's
hands, now commonly known as log-rolling, the commissioners arranged mat-
ters to suit their individual preferences, and named the point now known as
Newport, and a place adjoining Cascade, on the south side of the river, now lo-
cally known as Dale's Ford. The latter was in the corner of the county. There
were about a dozen votes cast at this farce election, and Newport received the
majority of the votes. The result was viewed rather in the light of a joke.
There was a solitary dwelling where Newport was to be laid out, the lone cabin of
Adam Overacker.
May II, 1846, the county commissioners held their first meeting at the new
seat of justice. The ground on which Newport was located was given* by Adam
Overacker to the county, being a ten-acre tract described as lot 2, section 33,
township 84, range 3 west. Here the town was duly platted under date of July
2, 1846, by G. G. Banghart, Adam Kramer and Adam Overacker, and in the same
month, at sheriff's sale, twenty-eight lots were sold in behalf of the county. The
proceeds of this sale aggregated three hundred dollars and .twelve cents, or an
average of less than eleven dollars per lot. The highest price paid was twenty-
six dollars by Levi Cronkhite.
Preparations were nrvade here for the erection of a log courthouse, and some
of the timbers were placed on the ground, but nothing was ever done toward its
completion. The commissioners rented a room from Adam Overacker for their
meeting, and made arrangements with him to supply rooms to accommodate the
court at the proper season.
When Judge Wilson reached the spot and found there was no place prepared
for holding court, save in a room in a log shanty ; saw no other house in the vicin-
ity, and naught in view save trees and waving prairie grass, he got into his buggy
and drove back to his home in Dubuque. No term of court was held during the
time the county seat was at Newport. The result of the election which fixed upon
Newport as the seat of the county, was generally regarded as a joke. It satisfied
no one except Adam Overacker, and was much less suited to the needs of the
county than Edinburg. As soon as possible, the assistance of the legislature was
again called in, and the privilege was granted by that body to vote for a county
seat, according to their own inclinations. If this election should not show a ma-
jority for any one point, a second election should be held, in which the two places
having the greatest number of votes in the first election should be the only ones
in the field.
In the first election held under this grant by the legislature, in the spring of
1847, five points were returned, viz. : Lexington, Newport, Rome, Monticello and
Scotch Grove. No votes were given to Edinburg. Newport and Lexington
stood highest, and in the second contest, about two weeks later, a victory resulted
m favor of Lexington, whose name was afterward changed to Anamosa by au-
thority of Judge Wilson, of the district court.
After the election, the commissioners met at Edinburg, June 10, 1847. They
adjourned until 7 o'clock, June nth, when they immediately took a recess to
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meet at i o'clock in the afternoon at Lexington. We might therefore say that
this town became the county seat between 7 a. m. and i p. m., June 11, 1847. The
house of G. H. Ford was temporarily secured for court purposes and the transac-
tion of county business.
Lexington had been surveyed by R. J. Qeveland June 18, 1846. with Mahan
& Crockwell as proprietors. It was replatted, with provision for a public square,
in June, 1847, by H. Mahan, John D. Crockwell and G. H. Ford, who, in accor-
dance with a previous pledge, donated to the county of Jones fifty lots of the new
town and a public square. Of these lots, forty-eight were sold at the July term of
the commissioners* board realizing to the county seven hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
The contract for building a two-story frame courthouse was let to G. H. Ford
at eight hundred dollars. This building was thirty by forty feet, and could not
have been built at so low a price had it not been that most of the necessary ma-
terial was already donated to the county. This courthouse was first occupied
January 3, 1848.
Various attempts have been made in later years to remove the county seat
from Anamosa to a more central locality.
In the vote of April 6, 1857, a contest was waged between Anamosa and
Madison, with a result of one thousand and twenty-four to seven hundred and
seventeen in favor of the former.
In the following year, an attempt to remove the seat of justice to the northeast
quarter of section i, Jackson township, failed by a majority of thirty-three votes.
The ballot stood one thousand, two hundred and seventy-eight to one thousand,
two hundred and forty-five.
In October, 1874, the people of the county were called upon to decide between
Anamosa and Center Junction. The contest was a bitter one and not without
some fear on the part of the friends of Anamosa. The latter, however, were
successful by a vote of one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-three to one thou-
sand five hundred and ninety-two. Center Junction had selected the site of the
new courthouse which was to be where Dr. J. M. Young's residence now stands,
north and east of the C. M. & St. P. depot.
About 1880 or a few years later, Wyoming was found with the county seat
bee buzzing within her borders. Petitions were in active circulation, preparations
were in progress for the erection of the new courthouse "on the brow of the hill,
on the west side of the creek which runs through the center of the town." But
this contest did not reach a vote.
There has been no further active contest for the removal of the county scat
from the present county capital.
THE COURTHOUSE.
The courthouse at Lexington as above mentioned, built by G. H. Ford, was far
in advance of any county structure up to that time. The building was completed
according to the terms and accepted, and for the first time Jones county had a
courthouse that could boast of more than one room. Here were installed the
county offices, clerk, treasurer, recorder, sheriff and school commissioner, each
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in his own apartment ; and people were no longer required to hunt up the clerk
at Farm Creek, the recorder at Fairview, the sheriff at Bowen's Prairie, or the
treasurer and school commissioner miles away in other townships.
And so it continued to be until January, 1864, when the building having grown
old and needing repairs from time to time, the county having increased in popu-
lation, and the county offices becoming cramped for room by the accumulation
of books of record, and the danger of quick destruction in case of fire, which any
evil-minded person might bring about, the board of supervisors accepted a prop-
osition to remove the records and fixtures to the then new brick block up town
belonging to H. C. Metcalf.
Though the old building did good service for the county for some eighteen
years, yet it was not free from the gnawings of the "tooth of time." The action
of the board at the January meeting, 1864, was as follows, and it will be seen that
the report of the commissioners, Messrs. B. K. Bronson, F. M. Hicks and John
Tallman, was in a somewhat humorous vein :
"Whereas, H. C. Metcalf has generously offered to Jones county suitable rooms
for county offices and a commodious hall in which to hold the district court, for
the term of two years free of rent, with the privilege of using the same three
years longer for such rent as the board of supervisors may see fit to allow, and,
*'Whereas, The ruinous and dilapidated condition of the building known as
the Jones county courthouse, now only renders it a fit habitation for bats and
owls, and as we, the representatives of Jones county, do not desire longer to dis-
pute possession with a class of tenants whose claims ?.re vastly superior to ours,
therefore
"Resolved, That this board accept said proposition and order a removal of
the public records as soon as said Metcalf shall make to the county the lease of
the aforesaid rooms, in accordance with the conditions above stated."
This resolution was finally adopted on the sixth day of the term, January,
1864. The old courthouse was sold at auction, November 15, 1864, to Alderman
ft Williams for two hundred and fifty dollars and was moved up town.
On February 14, 1875, the career of this historic structure was ended by fire.
It had been built when the county had less than two thousand population and in
its limited way, it had served its purpose, and the flames were unkind in hiding
from the view of the later population, the structure which in the early career of
the county, had been accorded the name of "courthouse."
The rooms rented of Mr. Metcalf were occupied free of rent for two years,
when they were leased at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per year. The
county offices remained here until the fall of 1871, when they were removed to
their present location in Shaw's new block. The courtroom was removed to
Lehmkuhl's block in January, 1871, the hall in Metcalf 's building being inade-
quate to the needs of the county. For three years, the county rented the rooms
occupied by the county. During the time of the contest for the county seat with
Center Junction, in 1874, Anamosa in its corporate capacity appropriated three
thousand dollars and private citizens subscribed two thousand dollars more, with
which amount and one thousand dollars additional pledged, the entire second
floor of Shaw's block and the auditor's office on the first floor were purchased and
conveyed to the county of Jones, to belong to said county so long as they were
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occupied for county and court purposes. In the event that the county seat is re-
moved from Anamosa, these rooms are to revert to their former owners, the city
and citizens of Anamosa. Arrangements were later made for the occupancy of
the second room on the lower floor for the county treasurer's office at an annual
rental of three hundred dollars. This arrangement is yet in effect.
There have been no further changes in the apartments for the county and
district court purposes. The building and rooms do not compare very favorably
with the modern and commodious brick courthouses of some of the newer coun-
ties of the state, though the building is serving its purpose without much expense
to the taxpayers of the county. ^
SOME IMPROVEMENTS.
The offices are provided with fire-proof vaults for the security of the county
records, and some of the offices, notably the clerk's office, have been equipped with
modern cases to store the records, H. G. A, Harper, the present clerk, has sys-
tematized the records of his office, and by so doing has made the records of the
office of some practical value. Louis Gardner, the present auditor, has in a like
manner, given to the routine work of his office, and to the records of his office,
a much needed revision and systematizing. It must be admitted that the older
county records are very incomplete and unsatisfactory. The present courthouse
is not a *'thing of beauty and a joy forever," though.the county officers are doing
nobly in making it answer the needs of the county. , ,
EDUCATIONAL, c
Jones county has maintained a good system of education during her years of
settlement. The early settlers will yet speak in gloiwing terms of the advantages
for education offered by the rural schools of the county It may seem strange, but
it is nevertheless true that there were more pupils cnix)lled in the schools of Jones
county thirty, forty or even fifty years ago, than there are at the present time. In
the school census of 1867, there were nearly seven t}«K!)usand children of school
age in the county. At the present time there are about six thousand.
There are nine town schools with a total teaching foroe of sixty-three teachers
and a total number of pupils of about two thousand, five hundred There are
about one hundred and thirty rural schools with a rural school population of over
three thousand. Every rural school is now provided vath a school library. All
but one graded school has a library. Every spring, applicants for rural gradua-
tion meet for the purpose of examination in the common branches. Those who
pass the examination are admitted to the high school? of the county without
further examination. Uniform county text-books are used in the county.
The general assembly has shorn the county superintendent of many of the
duties which formerly were required in the office. All examination papers are
now passed upon by a state board of examiners, and the competency of the appli-
cant for a teacher's certificate determined. This relieves the county superin-
tendent of some onerous duties, but it adds to the complexity of the machinery
required to grind out a teacher's certificate.
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The present county superintendent, Miss Kate Maurice, is the first lady to oc-
cupy that office in Jones county. She is now serving her second term in that
capacity, and to all intents and purposes, the schools of the county are receiving
that careful attention necessary for educational development. Miss Maurice be-
gan her teaching experience in the rural schools of Jones county, and later taught
in the graded schools of Monticello, Ames, Des Moines and other points. She
was bom and raised in this county and makes a conscientious and painstaking
official.
We give herewith a list of the rural and graded schools of the county, together
with the number of pupils in the township or district, and also the number en-,
rolled, and also other data. The school tax levy will be found under the title "The
Tax Levies for 1909," on another page.
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POLITICAL STATUS OF JONES COUNTY.
Attention has been given to the religious and social conditions in Jones county,
and it will form an interesting chapter to review the political situation. A gov-
ernment of the people, by the people and for the people cannot well exist and
prosper without having its principles supported, and this is usually done by or-
ganizations called political parties.
Politically, Jones county has been since 1856, a republican county. The new
party movement in 1874, called the anti-monopoly movement, formed an alliance
with the democratic party, which in 1873, elected their ticket by from three hun-
dred to four hundred majority. Some of those on the ticket had previously been
republicans. They were opposed however, by the regular republican nominees,
and their success was of course a defeat of the opposite party.
The formal organization of the republican party was effected on the 5th day
of Jrmuary, 1857, at a meeting held in Anamosa on that date, of which C. L. D.
Crockwell was chairman, and George Higby, secretary
A committee to report a plan of organization was appointed, composed of
A. H. Marvin, of Monticello; Thomas S. Hubbard, of Castle Grove; W. S. Niles,
of Madison ; H. O. Brown, of Qay ; J. S. Dimmitt, of Fairview. The committee
reported the following resolution which was adopted :
Whereas, We have full confidence in the national organization of the republi-
can party, and believe that we should use all honorable means for the triumph of
its principles ; therefore,
Resolved, That the republicans of Jones county adopt the following course
for an organization in said county: First, That there be a central committee of
three appointed, residents of Anamosa, who shall constitute a board whose duty
it shall be to call meetings, conventions, etc., in this county, and shall attend to
the distrihition of tickets at elections ; Second, That an e.KCCUtive committee of one
from each township be appointed to cooperate with the central committee, and to
call meetings in their several townships; Third, That the central and executive
committees shall elect from their number a president, treasurer and secretary
As this central committee, W. J. Henry, C. L. D. Crockwell and J. S. Dimmitt
were chosen.
The following township executive committee were chosen : Milo Q. Thompson
of Cass; George Higby of Castle Grove; John Russell of Clay; Pratt R. Skinner
of Fairview; Thomas Goudy of Greenfield; C. F. Lewis of Hale; M. H. Byerly
of Jackson; John Xiles of Madison; A. H. Marvin of Monticello; Jas. Kent of
Oxford; A. G. Brown of Pierce (now Wyoming) ; Barrett Whittemore of Rich-
land ; D. R. Carpenter of Rome ; John E. Lovejoy of Scotch Grove ; G. C. Mudgett
of Wayne.
A. H. Marvin and W. H. Holmes were the first delegates chosen to represent
Jones county in the republican state convention of 1857.
It is to be regretted that a similar record cannot be given of the formation and
organization of the democratic party in Jones county.
The republican and the democratic parties have been the leading political or-
ganizations in Jones county. From the record before U5, from 1852 down to the
past election, the republican party has carried the county at every election, as to
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the head of the ticket, except at four elections, to wit: In 1889 Horace Boies de-
feated Hutchinson for governor by a vote of two thousand one hundred and
eight>'-eight for Hutchinson, republican, to two thousand, two hundred and sixty-
seven for Boies, democrat ; again, in 1891, Boies, democrat, two thousand, five htm-
dre«l and twenty-six votes to two thousand, four hundred and twenty-two for
Wheeler, republican ; in 1892, Grover Qeveland, democrat for president, by a vote
of two thousand four hundred and nineteen to two thousand four hundred and
fort^ defeated Benjamin Harrison, republican; and in igo6. Porter, democrat, by a
vote of two thousand two hundred and sixty-one, defeated Ctmimins, repubUcan,
one tiiousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, for governor. The high mark of the
republican party was in 1868, when Grant defeated Seymour by a majority of one
thousand one hundred and twenty-seven; ag^n in 1872, when Grant defeated
Greely by a majority of one thousand and forty-eight ; and again in 1880, when
Garfield, republican for president received two thousand six hundred and seven-
teen votes as against one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven for Hancodc,
democrat, Garfield receiving a majority of nine hundred and ninety. The next
highest mark was in the presidential election in 1900, when McKinley, republican,
defeated Bryan, democrat, by a majority of nine hundred and sixty-nine.
The vote on local county nominees has not always followed the vote for the
head of the ticket. Frequently there have been several of the county offices filled
by democrats. The vote the past few years has been very close. At the present
time the sheriff, superintendent of schools, recorder, county attorney and four
county supervisors, are democrats ; while the auditor, clerk of the court, treasurer,
coroner and one county supervisor are republicans.
Other political parties have existed in Jones county, but none have ever gath-
ered much support. The greenback movement made a small start, having cast
forty-four votes in 1876. The prohibition party has developed some strength and
has had a county ticket in the field at each election for several years. At the
election in 1908, the prohibition party received fifty-two votes in the county;
while the socialist party cast twenty-three votes and the people's party received
two votes, both from Richland township.
The taxpayers' party was organized in Jones county through the personal ac-
tivity of John G. Krouse of Madison township, in 1897, and a county ticket was
placed in the field. Although receiving promises of support, at the election less
than twenty votes were cast for the party. The party platform enunciated a
nimiber of good principles, but several of its planks did not meet with sufficient
approval to make it a permanent party.
There have been a number of quite aggressive campaigns. During the presi-
dential campaigns of 1888 and 1892, the republican party was thoroughly
organized, marching clubs with streaming banners and flaming torches fired the
zeal of the young voters, while the orators proclaimed in burning words the
calamity which would follow the election of the candidates of the opposing party.
Several barbecues and ox roasts followed the victory in 1892. The democratic
party conducted a "gum shoe" campaign and with a thorough organization and
personal solicitation, secured a strong and influential following.
The practical workings of the primary law has had a tendency to demoralize
the party organizations, and cripple the eflFectiveness of the party, and also stifle
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the ambitions of candidates of limited means residing in the lesser populated
districts.
Since the enactment of the primary election law, the county convention has
become a memory. The democratic county conventions have usually been con-
ducted without much factional feeling, though there have been exceptions. The
last few conventions held by the party had developed quite an active factional
feeling. The Cleveland and Bryan wings, the sound money and the free silver
branches, clashed on the floor of the convention and the question of party di-
plomacy in the selection of candidates, became an interesting one. The republican
county conventions likewise have been the center of skillful party manipulation,
and the selection of candidates, strenuous. In the convention in 1903, fifty-six
ballots were required to nominate a county attorney, the longest battle of ballots
in the history of the county. J. E. Remley of Anamosa, A. A. Cole of Olin, R. M;
Corbit of Wyoming and A. G. Bauder of Monticello, were the candidates, the
latter receiving sufficient votes to nominate on the fifty-sixth ballot. Each candi-
date having had his hearing on the floor of the convention, harmony and good will
followed the meeting. The conventions and caucuses of the prohibition party have
been harmonious in the extreme, and the candidates have been nominated and
defeated without as much as a ripple on the surface of their party waters.
Notwithstanding some indiscretions in the party nominations, good men have
uniformly been elected to office in Jones county. No county officer has ever been
removed for incompetency or misconduct, nor has there ever been a charge pre-
ferred against any county officer for misconduct or inefficiency. It is true there
have been superior men in office, and because of this the standard of the office
has been raised. The best men do not always seek office or allow themselves to
be thrust into office. Neither do the most competent candidates always secure
the election. It is necessary to good government that there should be at least two
strong opposing political parties, and so long as Jones county enjoys this necessity,
the standard of efficiency in office will be maintained.
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
We give below a summary of the vote in Jones county, beginning with the
presidential election of 1852, and an annual vote since 1878.
1852 — Pierce, 338; Scott, 266; 1856 — ^Fremont, 964; Buchanan, 663; i860 —
Lincoln, R., 1,453; Douglas, D., 1,097; ^864 — Lincoln, 1,530; McClellan, D.,
941 ; 1868 — Grant, R., 2,400; Seymour, D., 1,277; 1872 — Grant, R., 2,285 ; Greeley,
D., 1,237; 1876— Hayes, R., 2,591 ; Tilden, D., 1,763.
The table below is an abstract of the votes by townships on the head of the
ticket, each year down to the last election in 1908.
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125
72
106
70
314
255
134
107
65
146
123
148
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Governor.
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436
79
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103
203
295
91
35
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127
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282
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106
108
415
115
77
108
86
373
291
135
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217
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106
76
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50
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36
66
198
238
90
117
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130
107
111
1982
139
70
81
672
97
135
108
95
189
348
147
68
254
129
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92
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78
82
292
89
67
92
65
68
161
225
86
121
89
120
98
109
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42
455
62
78
78
69
127
228
86
50
164
91
18
71
124
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89
99
884
127
80
100
71
106
256
250
67
141
52
127
112
166
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1908
President
109
65
76
519
105
109
97
80
196
246
122
66
228
110
8
70
260
64
97
78
406
104
72
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78
67
241
272
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158
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EARLY MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE LICENSES.
The first couple married in Jones county were Thomas J. Peak of Monticello
and Miss Rebecca M. Beardsley. This event of historic interest took place on
Christmas day, 1839. The groom was a native of Cheshire county, New Hamp-
shire, where he was born September 9, 181 3. In 1837 he came to Iowa from
Illinois in company with B. Beardsley, locating claims in what is now Castle
Grove township. They returned to Illinois for the winter, and in the following
April returned to Iowa and took permanent possession of their claims. The bride
was a daughter of B. Beardsley and was born in Delaware county. New York.
Mr. Peak died at Monticello, January 8, 1900, and Mrs. Peak died at the same
place, December 24, 1907.
In those pioneer days, the procuring of a marriage license was more than a
formal matter, and was not as easily obtained as now. Mr. Peak had to go to Sugar
Grove, Cedar county, Iowa, a distance of sixty-five miles taking him four days.
But as his mind was in a happy frame, and his thoughts dwelt on the happy event
which was about to take place in his life, the effort had its reward and he felt
well repaid for his trouble.
William Moore and Alvira Neal, parents of Mrs. T. A. King, the present wife
of the steward of the county home, might have had the distinction of being the
first couple married in the county, had it not been that the license was procured in
Dubuque county. They resided a short distance from the Dubuque county line,
and the officiating clergyman required the wedding couple to walk over the line
into Dubuque county to be within the jurisdiction of the license, and there just
over the borders of Jones county, under the sheltering protection of a large
oak, in May, 1839, they were pronounced man and wife in the presence of five of
their friends who had accompanied them likewise on foot.
The first marriage license issued in Jones county was granted to Edmund
Booth and Mary Ann Walworth, July 25, 1840, and on the following day they
were married by Justice John G. Joslin. This is the first marriage that appears
on the record in the clerk's office at Anamosa at the present time. Anent the pro-
curing of this license also hang^ a tale. Mr. Booth went t6 the clerk's house to
get a permit, as it was termed, to be married. The clerk was not at home, and as
he had no office other than his cabin and residence, this was naturally the place
where he would be expected to be found. Mr. Booth was told that the clerk was
cradling wheat about two miles north of Cascade. Nothing daunted, Mr. Booth
set out on foot in search for the clerk who was found working for a man named
Brown. When Mr. Booth got there, neither of them had any pen or pencil or
paper to write out the permit. Printed forms were not then in use in the clerk's
office. Mr. Booth and Mr. Clerk then returned to Cascade where the permit was
written and signed. With a lighter heart, Mr. Booth trudged his way homeward
and on July 25, 1840, the first marriage ceremony in the county was performed
under the authority of a Jones county license.
It is also of interest to note in connection with the marriage of Mr. Booth
and Miss Walworth that the justice of the peace was not burdened with marriage
information and had no form other than what appeared in the newspaper which
he happened to have. The printed service used in the marriage of Queen Vic-
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toria and Prince Albert, who had been married on February loth previous, was
in the newspaper which Justice Joslin happened to have in his possession. This
was read by Justice Joslin in the ceremony. Both the bride and the groom were
deaf mutes ; neither could speak a syllable or hear a sound. The marriage was
simplicity itself. There was no gorgeous display pf bridal flowers and neither
was there present a gjand retinue of bridesmaids to make the event similar in
splendor to the modem day ceremony. The union of hearts and the cementing of
the lives was perfect in spirit and sufficient unto the day was the happiness thereof.
There were two more marriages in the year 1840. In 1841 the number increased
to eleven for the year.
We herewith give the names of the parties married in Jones county, down
to December 30th, 1854, including the first marriage, which is not of record in
the Jones county records. The other data given, has been taken from the rec-
ords found in the office of the clerk of the district court.
Thomas J. Peak to Rebecca M. Beardsley Dec. 25, 1839
Edmund Booth to Mary Ann Walworth July 25, 1840
James Dawson, 21, to Emily A. Wilcox, 29 Nov. 10, 1840
David Varvel, 29, to Margarett E. Beardsley, 22 Dec. 15, 1840
James Miller to Catherine MefFord Jan. 4, 1841
David McCoy to Catherine Mefford Jan. 4, 1841
Richard J. Cleaveland, 35, to Mary Elizabeth Seeley, 26. . .April 8, 1841
Francis Dawson, 27, to Jane Boyd, 19 May 27, 1841
L. A. Simpson to Mary Btmigamer July i, 1841
Aquilla Baugh, 27, to Eunice Emeline Graft, 17 Aug. 10, 1841
John Hannon to Anne Smith Nov. 25, 1841
Reuben Bunce to Elizabeth M. Spencer Nov. 26, 1841
Wm. B. Curtis to Marietta Russel Dec. 26, 1841
W. H. Garrison to Rebecca Cronkhite Dec. 26, 1841
Thaddeus M. Smith, 30, to Anna Maria Smith, 20 Dec. 29. 1841
Alvin Winchel to Melinda Pate Jan. 11, 1842
Henry Mann to Catherine Mann May 15, 1842
Chas. Benoist to Rhoda Mellinger Aug. 8, 1842
Willard Holt to Martha Notrup Sept. 16, 1842
E. H. Warren to Lucy Nurse Jan. 24, 1843
Joshua R. Clark and Caroline M. Spencer March 4, 1843
Samuel Shintaffen and Rebecca Stratton March 26, 1843
John C. Taylor and Lucinda Ann Hickox Aug. 10, 1843
Hugh Simmons and Hannah Simmons Aug. 20, 1843
Samuel Starry and Rhoda Bungarner Sept. 9, 1843
S. N. Stylus and Mary Turner Oct. 26, 1843
M. H. Hutton and Matilda V. Titus Nov. 3, 1843
Truman I. Peet and Nancy Crow Dec. 3, 1843
Chas. Romer and Anna Williams Feb. 20, 1844
Geo. H. Brown and Mary Alloway Feb. 22, 1844
M. S. Buckman and Hannah Winchel March 20, 1844
C. S. Turner and Caroline Pate Oct. 8, 1844
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Alonzo B. Clark and Anna Mann Nov. 9, 1844
Solomon Eliot and Minerva Chaplin Feb. 10, 1845
Wm. Dawson and Isabella Boyd April 30, 1845
A. Overacter and Phebe Kramer. , Sept. 14, 1845
Johnson Knight and Ann Simpson Jan. 3, 1846
John Fenal and Mary Kelly Jan. 18, 1846
C. H. Lain and Mary Comwell Feb. i, 1846
Nathan Bumito and Jane Hargadin April 30, 1846
John Stevenson and Christie McClain June 16, 1846
William Thrapp and Joannah Shearman March 16, 1847
Geo. C. Perkins and Elizabeth Edginton March 30, 1847
Thomas Head and Catherine Burk April 3, 1847
Chester Hamilton and Emeline K. Jenks May 20, 1847
Noah Aldrich and Esther Hines June 23, 1847
Michael Sandouski and Sarah Williams Sept. 30, 1847
George M. Taylor and Lavina Betzer Oct. 4, 1847
Joseph Qark and Matilda Ann Spencer Oct. 8, 1847
Commodore Gilkison and Eliza Mershon Dec. 9, 1847
David Scott and Emily Lock Dec. 9, 1847
Corydon Chaplin and Hannah Rooney Jan. 8, 1848
Geo. Falls and Mary Rooney Jan. 8, 1848
Elias V. Miller and Susanna Grand Jan. 13, 1848
Aaron Smith and Mary Ann Johnson Feb. 17, 1848
Daniel Livingstone, Jr., and Mary Jane Balch March 9, 1848
Elam RafFerty and Evaline Graflford March 12, 1848
David W^ Graft and Christina Byerly March 30, 1848
C. H. Mershon and Leah Grauel.^ April i, 1848
Filden Hazelrig and Lydia P. Harvey April 4, 1848
Orin Scoville and Lydia Hines April 11, 1848
Miles Russel and Jane C. Randall April 13, 1848
John L. Williams and Dianah Knight April 16, 1848
O. P. Sant and N. L. Tryon May 3, 1848
Ezra C. Tracy and Mary Schelly May 21, 1848
Wm. Howard and Jane Freed June 11, 1848
Wm. F. Sosbe and C. M. Bodenhofer June 15, 1848
William F. Hohimer and Mary Lupton Aug. 20, 1848
Richard Roe and Juliet Taylor Aug. 31, 1848
Isaac Garrison and Almeda Lamunion Sept. 6, 1848
Patrick Mahon and Ellen Glenn Sept. 7, 1848
Wm. W. Walrods and Julien Hicks Sept. 14, 1848
John Lang and Bridget Devaney Sept. 30, 1848
Geo. Hansen and Hannah Shearman Nov. 23, 1848
Andrew Stinger and Emily A. Dawson Dec. 17, 1848
Alexander Hamilton and Louisa Houseman Dec. 25, 1848
Jos. Gilford and Penina Spencer Dec. 28, 1848
John E. Holmes and Catherine Livingstone Feb. 15, 1849
Wm. C. Hatcherson and Sarah Miller Feb. 18, 1849
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Joshua Benadom and Caroline Frary Feb. 26, 1849
Malachi Kelly and Margaret Leonard April 8, 1849
Ezekiel Grandon and Eliza Smith June 16, 1849
Richard Green and Harriet Lewis July 4, 1849
Jos. F. Berry and Lucinda Osborn July 15, 1849
Peter Smith and Mary Lawless Aug. 12, 1849
James Wood and Mary A. Hampton Aug. 18, 1849
John Scheck and Mary E. Bodenhofer Aug. 27, 1849
Wm. Jardine and Rachel Vice Sept. 16, 1849
Wm. J. Hester and Margaret J. Gilbert Sept. 24, 1849
John Scott and Mary Ann Choppin Nov. 1 1, 1849
Henry Knight and Betsy McKeever Dec. 9, 1849
Flaville Scoville and Cornelia Hoyt Dec. 9, 1849
Simon Grauel and Rhoda Miller Dec. 9, 1849
Wm. Sterling and Ann Parsons Dec. 25, 1849
Harvey F. Dalton and Manda Selder Dec. 2T, 1849
John Harcourt and Lucinda Snook Dec. 27, 1849
Richard Durgan and Thankful A. Tompkins Jan. i, 1850
Orrin Harvey and Mary Jane Ryan Jan. 8, 1850
John Cook and Lydia Henin Jan. 17, 1850
Simeon Green and Sarah Wright Jan. 20, 1850
Chas. White and Mary Ellen Crow Feb. i, 1850
George Graft and Mary Seely March 16, 1850
Edward Hansen and Louisa Boyd March 31, 1850
Daniel Livingstone and Mary Hippie April 4, 1850
Geo. W. Peters and Emeline Winchel April 21, 1850
Henry Kaffitz and Louisa Hamilton April 25, 1850
Peasly Hoyt and Hannah Mitchell June 26, 1850
Wm. M. Wilcox and Amanda Gamberton July 4, 1850
James Dorrigan and Mary Lynch Aug. 4, 1850
Edward Reese and Martha Joslin Aug. 4, 1850
John N. Garrison and Elizabeth Cole Aug. 8, 1850
Ira Bates and Elizabeth Spear Sept. 12, 1850
Joseph Miller and Rebecca Grauel Oct. 10. 1850
William Niles and Louisa Warrington Oct. 20. 1850
John Alspach and Mary Ann Renfrew Nov. 20, 1850
Patrick O'Bryan and Catherine Farley Nov. 24, 1850
Israel Fisher and Maria Antoinette Crane Dec. 15, 1850
Pratt R. Skinner and Mary A. Lagourgue Dec. 25, 1850
James Stingley and Nancy McCormick Jan. 15, 185 1
Caleb B. Rigby and Sarah Libbold Jan. 30, 1851
Thos. Byers and Lucinda Kramer Feb. 7, 1851
John C. Taylor and Marriet Shearman Feb. 9. 1851
James W. Selder s and Lavina E. Lockwood March 4, 1851
Chancey Conklin and Catherine Smith March 4, 1851
Jeremiah Lockwood and Hannah Bachelder April 3, 1851
Wm. Whitlach and Hulda A. Phillips April 6. 1851
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Jacob Rearick and Christy McClain April 6, 1851
Joseph Mann and Caliphima O. Peet May 3, 1851
Harvey Garrison and Amanda H. Ayres June 13, 1851
Burt Smith and Irena A. Reed July 3, 1851
James Ridings and Charlotte Sutherland July 24, 1851
James Mann and Elizabeth Winchel Aug. 26, 1851
Robert Keneday and Mary Ann Hogan Aug. 30, 1851
J. W. Singer and Caroline Bassett Sept. 3, 1851
Thos. Porter and Nary A. Craft Sept. 16, 1851
Jesse M. Davis and Rosan Belong Sept. 24, 1851
Samuel Michel and Sutha Wright Sept. 25, 1851
Myron Sarton and E. A. Wilhite Sept. 29, 1851
E. Waldren and Elmina Bibby Oct. 5, 1851
labus Starry and Eleanor Simpson Oct. 17, 1851
Thomas Simpson and Louisa Robinson Oct. 26, 1851
Andrew I. McFry and Mary Hutton Nov. i, 1851
Benjamin Lake and Anna Smith Nov. 8, 1851
Lewis Ingraham and Susan Romini Nov. 15, 1851
Thos. McKeever and Mary Cahill Dec. 3, 1851
Erastus Munger and Rebecca Pence Dec. 11, 1851
Jacob R. Betzer and Rebecca Stover Jan. 19, 1852
John Beatty and Mary Jane Thomas Jan. 29, 1852
Eldad Cooley and Sarah McRill Jan. 29, 1852
Philip A. Lewis and Margaret Jane Cronkhite Feb. 11, 1852
Thomas Smith and Margaret Jane Burke Feb. 13, 1852
William Ward and Sarah Carey Feb. 26, 1852
John Cole and Rebecca Bumbumer March 7, 1852
James P. Crawford and Minerva Strode March 14, 1852
Henry Cole and Mary Simpson March 17, 1852
Geo. Clymer and EHzabeth Myers March 18, 1852
Michael Stover and Catherine Betzer March 28, 1852
Benj. Abrams and Mary Foust March 30, 1852
C. L. Camberton and Sarah M. Parker May 4, 1852
Amos Roe and Eliza A. Foust, May 15, 1852
Peter Hughes and Julia Hughes May 18, 1852
William Caldwell and Sarah Barnhill May 24, 1852
Wesley Cooper and Philena Cole June i, 1852
J. C. Bell and Margaret Sinclair June 8, 1852
Geo. Hotz and Catherine Weaver June 10, 1852
Alfred L. Warrington and Catherine Scott July 19, 1852
Wm. Sutherland and Mary E. Hutton July 20, 1852
Selden Harding and Sarah Ann Pindell Aug. i, 1852
William Walston and Sarah Waite Aug. 12, 1852
Joseph Mann and Betsy Mann Aug. 14, 1852
William Stivers and Emily Baugh Aug. 22, 1852
James P. Tibbets and Lois Ann Cooley Aug. 24, 1852
Edward Troy and Honora Mullady Aug. 26, 1852
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Levi K. Miller and Mary Ann Green Sept. 7, 1852
Mathias H. Houstman and Agnes Merritt Oct. 9, 1852
John W. Wagner and Nancy Jane Soesbe Oct. 12, 1852
H. Burns and Sarah Pute Oct. 19, 1852
William I. Patterson and Electa M. Damont Oct. 21, 1852
John Easterly and Anna Myers Oct. 22, 1852
Wm. F. Arnold and Orpha Alspach Nov. 13, 1852
Joseph Porter and Abigail Brooks Nov. 15, 1852
Alexander Beatty and Mary E. South Nov. 17, 1852
C. T. Samson and M. M. Crane Nov. 19, 1852
Samuel S. Buxton and Mary A. Skinner Dec. 16, 1852
John M. Taylor and Elizabeth Lucas Dec. 16, 1852
Allison Jeffries and Hannah Myers Dec. 19, 1852
Henry Miller and Harriet Jeffries Dec. 19, 1852
C. B. Moses and Catherine Sutherland Dec. 23, 1852
John Mitchell and Harriet Street Dec. 25, 1852
William Haddock and Sarah Cornwall .Dec. 25, 1852
James Wilson and Cynthia M. Silsbee Jan. i, 1853
James Curren and Martha Jane Bennight Jan. 7, 1853
Andrew Soper and Sarah Brundage Jan. 19, 1853
Ross Porter and Sarah Jane Brown Jan. 20, 1853
O. G. Randall and Fidelia Eastman Feb. 2. 1853
Joseph Merritt, Jr., and Rebecca Merrit March , 1853
John Byers and Mary E. Graham March 27, 1853
James Olmstead and Lucy G. Hannah April 12, 1853
Thomas Silsby and Susanna Conaly April 21, 1853
Abram Miller and Caroline Freeman May 7, 1853
Jacob Lamb and Mary Jane Easterly May 8, 1853
Joseph Gerard and Rebecca Coleman June 16, 1853
David Kenison and Emily Sheffield June 20, 1853
William Gillilan and Martha Parsons July 17, 1853
Isaac N. Plummer and Mary E. Strode July 20, 1853
Timothy Soper and Adelia Maria Starkweather Aug. 3, 1853
Jos. M. Miller and Mary Jane Strawn Aug. 6, 1853
Jesse E. Bamhill and Ellen Sutherland Aug. 19, 1853
William Frees and Lydia RafFerty Aug. 25, 1853
Edward O'Bryan and Catherine O'Conner Aug. , 1853
Elias G. Miller and Nancy Strawn Aug. 27, 1853
A. B. Kendig and Sarah Porter Sept. 7, 1853
Frederick Dumont and Delia Hakes Sept. 4, 1853
Thomas Sinkey and Emily Hildreth Sept. 11, 1853
P. M. Baker and Amelia Joslin Sept. 14, 1853
John A. Fields and Sarah J. Squires Sept. 16, 1853
Petty M. Smith and Ellen Hall Sept. 17, 1853
William Hindman and Sarah Jane Kyle Sept. 12, 1853
Jacob Easterly and Mary Ann Newman Sept. 25, 1853
Benjamin Lake and Minam Finch Oct. 9, 1853
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James Kirkpatrick and Jane Barclay Oct. i6, 1853
Abraham Straight and Mary Jane Younger Oct. 12, 1853
Francis M. Hostetter and Julia Ann Bradley Oct. 13, 1853
H. R. Long and Barbara Ann Cronkhite Nov. 2, 1853
Thos. Head and Nancy Glum Nov. , 1853
Aaron Tracewell and Louemma Green Nov. 22, 1853
John McGowan and Mary Courtney Nov. 30, 1853
M. J. Hindman and Elizabeth Kyle Dec. 6, 1853
John P. Choppa and Nancy McBee Dec. 28, 1853 .
John Belknap and O. E. Gates Jan. i, 1854
Samuel Barnhall and Martha Rodman Jan. 3, 1854
Cornelius Ingram and Sarah Ann Brown Jan. 12, 1854
Isaac V. D. Lewis and Mary Ann White Jan. , 1854
Wm. F. Mayer and Nancy Jane Graft Jan. 31, 1854
Bratna W. Curtis and Phoebe E. Fay Feb. 9, 1854
Sanford Lucas and Rosanna Tahn Feb. 15, 1854
E. K. Johnson and Louisa M. Randall Feb. 16, 1854
John B. McQueen and Hildah S. Bissell Feb. 19, 1854
Alexander Long and Lucinda Stingley Feb. 21, 1854
G. W. Stevens and Christina Slife Feb. 24, 1854
John Marselle and Hannah Todd Feb. 26, 1854
A. E. White and Elizabeth A. Clein March 26, 1854
Henry A. Newman and Mary Barker March 28, 1854
L. D. Smith and Eliza H. Overly April 2, 1854
Robert McGinty and Mary Clark April 6, 1854
John Tabor and Margaret Barton April 14, 1854
Adam Knight and Mary Jane Tompkins April 16, 1854
E. H. Evans and Philena Brundage April 18, 1854
Joseph Morgen and Jemima Jane Spencer April 23, 1854
Lewis Ainsworth and Persis Bartholemew April 24, 1854
Lucius B. Irish and Maria Jane Brown April 24, 1854
Jacob Bowen and Savalla Ann Brown May 2, 1854
William T. Shaw and Helen A. Crane May 4, 1854
H. W. Roberts and Lydia Vanvoltenburg May 7, 1854
Ogden Horton and Emily Green May 12. 1854
Peter Vanvoltenberg and Lydia Holt May 15, 1854
Adam J. Kramer and Elisabeth A. Ristine May 15, 1854
John S. Warrington and Mary Jane Taylor May 28, 1854
William Smothers and Elizabeth Clymer June 8, 1854
John M. Potter and Eliza Jane Torrence June 22, 1854
William Southench and Eleanor Warrington June 22, 1854
James Orr and Mary Murry June 29, 1854
William Milton and Hester Ann Richardson June 29, 1854
Riley Temiliger and Mary Adelia Benedict July 3, 1854
Henry Benscotee and Sarah Ann Smothers July 27, 1854
John W. Arnold and N, C. Miller July 30, 1854
John Helmic and Mary Jane Byers July 30, 1854
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Jeremiah E. Friend and Algetha N. Hall Aug. 13, 1854
Daniel Moyer and Pansy Spade Aug. 26, 1854
M. O. Felton and Anna M. Krouse Aug. 29, 1854
Guiles J. Hakes and Phoebe Jane Rundall Aug. 31, 1854
A. W. Barker and Almira Dodge Sept. i, 1854
Alexander HilHs and Louisa F. Arnold Sept. 17, 1854
John Giblu and Martha Jane Peasly Sept. 20, 1854
William H. Hoffman and Emeline Gumbaugh Sept. 21, 1854
. John Hohnes and Clarissa Lain Sept. 28, 1854
Leonard Gee and Lucinda Hutton Oct. 2, 1854
Geo. Sturdevant and Mary Louisa Espy Oct. 3, 1854
Thomas Robinson and Esther Waite Oct. 11, 1854
William Raines and Nancy Maria Benton Oct. 26, 1854
Alexander G. Beardsley and Augusta Bartholemew Oct. 30, 1854
William Ainsworth and Maria Ingram Nov. 2, 1854
Frederick Boody and Magdaline Echer Nov. 5, 1854
Samuel M. Miller and Martha Jane Arnold Nov. 12, 1854
James McGargill and Catherine Lavery Nov. 15, 1854
F. M. Sacrest and Mary A. Mershon Nov. 16, 1854
Edwin M. Hamilton and Louisa C. Harbaugh Nov. 18, 1854
Ambrose Hill and Catherine BodenhofFer Nov. 19, 1854
Unison D. Vaughn and Nancy N. Countryman Nov. 20, 1854
Jedediah Ferris and Mary Page Nov. 22, 1854
William Kelly and Eliza McBee Nov. 26, 1854
Luther Abbe and Clarissa Smith Dec. 2, 1854
Isaac Orcutt and Emily Downer Dec. 6, 1854
Mead Vaughn and Alvira Rountree Dec. 10, 1854
Francis McBride and Ann Maria McNan Dec. 20, 1854
Geo. E. Reyner and Hannah L. Mackrill Dec. 24, 1854
Lafayette Scott and Martha V. Brown Dec. 28, 1854
John Byerly and Felicia Alspach Dec. 30, 1854
EARLY DAIRYING.
The following short sketch from the pen of H. D. Sherman, written for this
history, will give the reader an accurate idea of the origin and development of
the dairy industry in Jones county. Mr. Sherman was the pioneer dairyman of
Jones county and erected the first creamery in the county. Our pioneer was also
one of the first state dairy commissioners in Iowa. Mr. Sherman is now a resi-
dent of Cedar Rapids, though he still retains a commendable interest in the
progress of the dairy industry in Jones county. — Editor.
"I came to Jones county from Elgin, Illinois in 1859. During the winter
of 1859 and i860, and also in the winter of 1860-61, I taught school at Anamosa.
In 1 861 I located at Monticello and taught school until 1870.
"Prior to 1863, all the butter produced in the county was received at the
stores, and the same price was paid for all grades. In 1863 1 began buying butter
on the streets of Monticello for cash, paying according to the grade or quality,
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and with the assistance of a boy, I handled a large per cent of the butter and
eggs produced in the northern half of the county.
"At that time the energies of the farmers were devoted to grain raising,
especially to the raising of wheat. But the time came when the substance in the
soil that produced wheat, was exhausted. And then came the vermin and de-
stroyed what wheat did grow. Farmers began to look for other sources of
profit.
"I continued in the business of buying butter, eggs and poultry. As the
business increased, in 1874, I took as partner Mr. H. F. Pierce. In the fall of 1875
we built Diamond Creamery, the first in the county. The first milk was received
at the creamery in the spring of 1876. In order to start the creamery, we were
obliged to send to Illinois for a chum. When the churn arrived at the depot it
was the talk of the town, and the remark was made, 'I g^ess Sherman is going
to chum all the milk in the county.' It was a sixty gallon box churn.
"When we built the creamery we did not have the pledge or assurance of a
single dairy, but by June of that year we had all the milk we could handle. The
capacity of the creamery was ten thousand pounds of milk a day. The next year
we increased the capacity. The milk was delivered at the creamery direct from
the dairy morning and night in warm weather and once a day in cold, weather.
The cream was obtained by the temperature system. We first set the milk in large
tin pans surrounded by water and we afterward changed and used the deep
setting or shotgun can. All the creameries we built and operated were on the
full milk plan. We never gathered cream from the farmers. Neither had we
any cream separators. They were not in use, and in fact the cream separator had
not been invented at the time we began the creamery business.
"The first separator I ever saw was on exhibition at the international dairy
fair in New York city in 1878. It was a little bit of a thing about as big as a
gallon jug.
"In 1874 we began selling the most of our butter to Simpson, Mclntyre and
Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and when we began the creamery business
we sold the most of our product to the same firm. In 1879, we sold to Simpson,
Mclntyre & Co., a half interest in the creamery business, and from that time,
the Boston firm had the sale and disposal of all the products of the creameries.
"The Diamond was the first creamery in the west to pack butter in tin
cans, large quantities of which were sold to the United States government. The
brand of butter in an early date became known all over the world and estab-
lished for itself a reputation for fine butter. We built and operated creameries
in the townships of Wayne, Scotch Grove, Castle Grove and Richland, and we
had three in Linn county. In all of these creameries the cream was churned and
the butter delivered at the home creamery at Monticello. At the time I sold my
interest in 1884, we were operating ten or twelve creameries. At the Interna-
tional Dairy Fair, held in New York city in 1878, the Diamond Creamery was
awarded sweepstakes prize for the best butter made at any time or place, and also
received first prize for Iowa Creamery. Again in December, 1879, at the Dairy
Fair in New York, Diamond was awarded the two first prizes for keeping quali-
ties for butter made in June and September ; also for butter salted with Higgins'
Eureka Salt.
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"For the first ten or fifteen years that I shipped butter to the eastern mar-
kets, I was obliged to suffer a depreciation or discrepancy of two or three dol-
lars a hundred, in price on the same quality of butter compared with eastern,
because it was from the west. But the time came when we swept that distinction
out of existence, and Jones county in an early day did her full share to bring
credit and honor to the dairy industry of the state of Iowa.
"It is a fact worthy of note, that at the exhibits at Philadelphia in 1876, and
also at the dairy fairs in New York city in 1878-79, in all of the universal cases
when butter east and ^est could compete, in every individual case, the first prize
came west of Chicago, and the fact was fully established that good butter could
be produced in the west."
ODDS AND ENDS.
M. E. APPOINTMENTS BY CONFERENCE IN 1874.
Anamosa, J. B. Casebeer ; Wyoming, H. H. Green ; Johnson, W. N. Chaflfee ;
Larigworthy, C. A. Hawn; Monticello, Thomas Thompson; Monmouth, W. B.
Milner ; Cascade, supplied by C. F. Bentley ; Maquoketa, G. R. Manning.
PETIT JUEORS, DECEMBER, . 1867.
Cass, O. B. Doyle ; Qay, John Palmer ; Fairview, T. E. Belknap, Chas. Lewis ;
Greenfield, J. W. Arnold, H. D. Keller; Hale, Philip Bramer, Jasper Dalby;
Jackson, Isaac Hay; Madiscm, David H. Sherrill; Monticello, Joseph Qark;
Rome, Jonathan Easterly; Richland, Otis Whittemore; Scotch Grove, John E
Lovejoy; Wayne, Joseph Garrett; Washington, B. H. Leonard; Wyoming,
O. J. Bill, E. M. Franks.
MONTICELLO MARKETS, JUNE 20, 1 867.
Gold $ 1.30 Beans 3.00
Flour 13.00 Butter 10
Spring wheat 1.25 Cheese 15
Oats 45 Lard 08
Com, ear 70 Live hogs $3.50 to $4.00
Rye 65 Cattle 4.00 to 5.50
Barley 60 Wood, per conl 4.00 to 5.00
Potatoes 1.25 Wool 20 to 40
WYOMING MARKETS^ OCTOBER I, I909.
Flour $6.40 Lard 15
Com 75 Barley 45
Potatoes 60 Oats $35*0 .4Q
Butter, dairy 27 Hogs 7.00 to 7.25
Butter, creamery 32 Cattle 400 to 7.00
Eggs 25 Wood, cord 5.00 to 6.00
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ABSTRACT OF REAL AND PERSONAL fROPERTY, 1867.
Acres of land, 353,740, value $2,510,212.00
Town property 295,389.00
Meat cattle, 15,782, value 221,098.00
Horses, 7,293, value 369»332«>
Mules and Asses, 133, value 10,890.00
Sheep, 22,044, value 44,199.00
Swine, 23,338, value 48,222.00
Vehicles, 2,534, value 84,675.00
Merchandise 1 13,262.00
Moneys and credits 172,352.00
Taxable household goods 1,590.00
Corporation stock 40.00
Farming utensils 10,687.00
Other taxable prcq)erty 34>6o5.oo
Total personal 1,143,298.00
Total property $3,970,118.00
SCHOOL CENSUS, AND SCHOOL FUND APPORTIONMENT, APRIL, 1867.
Anamosa 598 children
Castle Grove 262 children
Clay 393 children
Cass 254 children
Fairview 497 children
Greenfield 386 children
Hale 316 children
Jackson 329 children
Monticello 784 children
Madison 274 children
Oxford 303 children
Rome 408 children
Richland 323 children
Scotch Grove 356 children
Washington 420 children
Wayne 330 children
Wyoming 576 children
Total children 6,809
Total sum apportioned, $5,991.92 or 88 cents per scholar.
STATUS OF AIR SHIP NAVIGATION IN AUGUST, I909.
Ere another decade shall have passed, navigation by means of an air ship,
no doubt will have been successfully accomplished, and will no longer be an
experiment. In the development of this means of transportation, it will be
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interesting to know just what $tage was reached in 1909. The people of Iowa
are giving the matter more or less attention from the fact that Orville Wright
and Wilbur Wright who have been leaders this year in aerial flights, were for-
merly residents of this state. On July 25, 1909, Monsieur Louis Bleriot in his
monoplane made a successful flight across the English Channel between Calais
and Dover a distance of twenty-one miles in twenty-three minutes. This fact
was given considerable attention as an accomplishment and fixed public atten-
tion throughout the civilized world upon the air ship as a practical passenger
conveyance to a degree which no other event in the history of aeronautics has
succeeded in doing.
On the same day the Wright brothers' aeroplane, driven by Orville Wright,
and carrying a passenger, made a world's record for duration of flight by a heavier-
than-air machine carrying a driver and passenger. The Wright aeroplane flew
one hour^ twelve minutes and forty seconds, beating the time made under similar
conditions by his brother Wilbur Wright, in France, in August, 1908. Wilbur
Wright, in France, in January, 1909, without a passenger, remained in the air
two hours, eighteen minutes and thirty seconds, and covered a distance of about
seventy miles.
The Outlook in the edition of August 7, 1909, gives a general description of
the air ships of the present day, which we give herewith as a means of preserving
for readers of the future, the information being interesting reading at this
date.
'The air ships of the present day may be divided into two general classes —
the dirigible or lighter-than-air machine, and the aeroplane or heavier-than-air
machine ; aeroplanes are again classified in two types — the biplane and the mono-
plane. Count Zeppelin, of Germany, is perfecting the dirigible, Bleriot the
monoplane and the Wright Brothers the biplane. In sea terms, the dirigible
may be roughly compared to the sub-marine boat, the monoplane to the sloop
and the biplane to the schooner. The dirigible is not a flying machine in any
sense, although that term may be applied more reasonably to the aeroplane.
The Zeppelin dirigible, or air ship floats in the air, supported by from a dozen to
twenty air and gas tight apartments filled with hydrogen, which is lighter than
air, just as the sub-marine floats in the water supported by water and air-tight
compartments, filled with atmosphere, which is lighter than water; it is moved
forward by rapidly revolving propellers, which act upon the surrounding air
just as the sub-marine's propellers act upon the surrounding water. It is a
veritable air ship. The aeroplane, on the contrary, flics as the boy's kite flies;
the kite will not rise of itself, nor will it stay aloft if the kite string is cut; it
flies only when the boy pulls it against the resisting air which presses upon its
surfaces. So the aeroplane will not rise of itself ; it must get a start by rolling
down an incline, when the revolving propellers begin to push its great double or
single surface against the air as the boy's kite-string pulls the kite against the
resisting air. When the motor stops, the aeroplane falls as the kite falls when the
string is cut. To start it again somebody or some mechanical ccMitrivance must
run with it, as the boy runs with his kite before playing out the string which con-
nects his motor arm with the flying toy.
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"The advantages of the air ship over the aeroplane as a practical convey-
ance are thus seen at a glance. In their present stage of development the aero-
plane of the Wright or Bleriot type is the more picturesque and romantic, the
air ship of the Zeppelin school is the more utilitarian, although it would be
folly to assert what may or may not be accomplished in the future in the develop-
ment of the aeroplane along utilitarian lines. Flying in an air ship today is
like swimming without a life preserver — 3l graceful and adventurous accom-
plishment.
*' Aerial navigation is no longer a matter of mere speculation, like the ques-
tion of the habitability of the planet Mars ; the air is actually being navigated.
There remain now only the amplification of methods and machinery already
demonstrated to be practicable."
THE NORTH POLE.
After centuries of speculation, and decades of effort, the most northern point
of Mother Earth has been reached, and to America comes the glory of the
achievement. Early in September, 1909, the announcement was made that Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, accompanied by two Eskimos, had on April
21, 1908. stood, in the midst of a waste of ice, at the point where all directions
are south, where latitude reaches a maximum, where longitude vanishes, where
the magnetic needle is reversed, and the North Star is in the zenith. Five days
later, another message thrilled the world that Commander Robert E. Peary had
also reached this coveted point of the earth's surface on April 6, 1909, after
t\venty-three years of effort. A controversy at once arose, principally on the
part of Peary who claimed that Cook's story should not be taken too seriously,
and this controversy continues to grow, with I>r. Cook the popular favorite.
This discovery is the most important geographical event of years.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN 1868.
The Republican county convention was held in the schoolhouse at Wyoming,
August 22, 1868. John McKean called the convention to order and John Tasker
was elected chairman and T. E. Booth, secretary. The committee on creden-
tials consisted of Robert Dott, M. M. Moulton and J. A. Bronson. On per-
manent organization. Major S. S. Farwell, J. D. Walworth and Emerson Brown.
Adjourned.
On assembling of the convention the credentials committee reported the
following townships and delegates :
Cass. — Carso Crane, Lyman Guilford and E. M. Condi t.
Castle Grove. — William M. Starr.
C/ay.— John Russell, M. C. Walters, J. McDaniel, N. B. Noyes, E. E. Brown.
Fainnew. — H. C. Metcalf, J. D. Walworth, E. B. Alderman, G. D. McKay,
C. L Niles, J. L. Myers, Robert Dott, T. E. Booth, C. H. Lull, John McKean,
Chauncey French, E. M. Harvey, W. M. Skinner.
Greenfield. — Samuel Shields, J. B. J. Porter, Isaac H. Ford, F. H. Myrick.
Hale. — A. J. Dalby, J. H. Evans, D. Grarrison.
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Jackson.— U, H. Monroe, S. E. Bills, D. B. Bills.
Madison,— A. G. Pangbum, D. H. Sherrill, Robert Somerby, J. Bender,
M. O. Felton.
Monticello.—M^jor S. S. Farwell, S. M. Yoran, G. D. Bradley, M. M. Moul-
ton, James Davidson, S. R. Howard, M. W. Herrick, H. H. Starks, A. H. Mar-
vin, Colonel J. O. Duer.
Oxford.— A. A. Reilly, G. W. Lathrop, H. S. Rising.
Richland.— J. R. Stillman, J. E. Harkness, Cyrus Whittemore.
Rome.—E. White, D. E. Rummel, Thomas Easterly, C. Hazlett, J. Stewart,
Charles Klise.
Scotch Grove.— J. S. Fuller, S. H. Qark, Adam Sutherland, John Filson,
J. E. Holmes, M. Blodgett.
I^ayw^.— J. C. Ramsey, P. G. Bonewitz, J. G. Dawson, A. Nash, Joseph Gaut,
J. Cameron, A. Aitchison.
Wyoming.— F. T. Woodyard, S. Cobum, J. T. Miller, Thomas Green, John
Tasker, D. L. Blakeslee, J. A. Bronson, S. Hamilton.
Following the adoption of the report, Mr. J. C. Dietz was nominated by a
unanimous ballot for the office of county clerk.
On the vote for recorder Lieutenant Richard McDaniel received sixty-five
votes and Morgan Bumgardner eighteen, and on motion of Mr. Bronson the
nomination of Mr. McDaniel was made unanimous.
The county central committee was appointed as follows: J. C. Dietz, John
E. Lovejoy, William H. Holmes, P. G. Bonewitz, M. M. Moulton.
JONES COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The Jones County Medical Society was organized at Anamosa, September
30, 1903. The meeting was called to order by Dr. G. E. Crawford, of Cedar
Rapids, councillor of the State Medical Society for the fifth district. A con-
stitution and by-laws were adopted in conformity to the requirements of the
state society.
The officers elected were: president, W. R. Brock of Olin; vice-president,
T. C. Gorman of Anamosa; secretary, Harry W. Sig^vorth of Anamosa; treas-
urer, L. K. Bobo of Oxford Junction ; delegate to the state meeting, A. G. Hejinian
of Anamosa; board of censors: F. W. Port of Olin, George Inglis and W. W.
Hunter of Monticello.
The county society meets semi-annually at which the necessary business is
transacted, and a program of papers and clinics is carried out. The physicians
derive much valuable assistance by these conferences on medical topics of local
and general interest.
The present officers are: president, L. K. Bobo of Oxford Junction; vice-
president, J. G. Thomas of Monticello; secretary and treasurer, J. E. King of
Anamosa; board of censors, Aileen B. Corbit of Wyoming, W. B. Brock of
Olin and W. W. Hunter of Monticello ; delegate to the state society, L. K. Bobo
of Oxford Junction.
All of the physicians of Jones county, with only a few exceptions arc mem-
bers of the county society. The board of supervisors of the county has at diflFerent
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times contracted with the county medical society for medical aid for the poor
of the coimty. The present county medical society is not the first of the kind or
name organized in the county. In casually looking through the files of The
Anamosa Eureka, we find that a similar society was organized prior to 1875,
and that regular meetings were held as now by the present society.
Among the names of the members of this former society we find : Dr. L. J.
Adair, Dr. W. W. Stoddard, Dr. Carlisle, Dr. Alden, Dr. Phillips, Dr. Johnson,
Dr. Hurst. Dr. Paul, Dr. M. H. Calkins and Dr. Joslin. Dr. Alden was presi-
dent in 1875 and Dr. Hurst, secretary. The members of the present medical
society of 1909 are : W. B. Brock, J. A. White and F. W. Port of Olin ; B. H.
Chamberlain, Aileen B. Corbit and R. H. Spence of Wyoming; E. H. Knittlc
of Onslow ; J. G. Weinland of Martelle ; J. M. Young and T. B. Kent of Center
Junction; J. E. King, H. W. Sigworth, F. B. Sigworth, T. C. Gorman, F. S.
Druet, A. G. Hejinian of Anamosa; L. K. Bobo and J. E. Davies of Oxford Junc-
tion ; W. W. Hunter, George Inglis, J. E. Gilmore, F. Puleston, W. A. Miridc,
J. G. Thomas, T. M. Redmond, Louis G.Stuhler of Monticello.
THE JONES COUNTY FARMERS' INSTITUTE.
It is perfectly natural in an agricultural community that the tillers of the soil
and the raisers of stock, "the hewers of wood and the drawers of water," should
organize for mutual benefit; that the farmers should meet, compare notes on
methods as well as on ways and means, and thereby enrich their storehouse of
useful information. The earliest inhabitants and the best citizens of Jones county
have been farmers, with the natural instinct to earn their bread by the sweat of
their brows ; to raise com to feed hogs to buy more land to raise more corn to feed
more hogs to buy more land, etc. But added to the natural instinct to till the
soil, was another element, namely, the desire to keep abreast of the best informa-
tion obtainable, for the care of stock, the treatment of the soil, the building of
good roads, the development of the dairy industry, the conservation of the for-
est, the retention of moisture in the soil, how to interest the boys on the farm,
the happiness of home life and country home entertainment, and kindred topics.
The meetings of the farmers have been informal. The date of the first meet-
ing does not appear to be a matter of record. It may suffice to know that such
meetings were held and the subjects discussed with a remarkable degree of in-
telligence. A temporary organization would be effected and the regular meet-
ings be held during the winter and perhaps then a year or two would pass with-
out a meeting.
The last organization of the County Institute was at the meeting held in
Onslow in February, 1893. This, in fact, was simply a re-organization; Among
the names of the farmers who were actively interested in the welfare of the
organization we find R. A. Rynerson, A. G. Brown, S. L. Gilbert, Rv A. Norton,
F. J. Sokol, E. E. Brown, W. C. Monroe, Stephen Walsworth, H. D. Smith,
J. B. Lyon, M. H. Morse, J. W. Morse, Frank Tasker, Hon. John Russell, H. H.
Monroe, M. O. Felton, R. A. Inglis, J. A. Mallicoat, R. G. Lyans, Jerry Wood-
yard, Ben Hoyt and others.
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No meeting of the County Farmers' Institute has been held for several years.
This may be accounted for in several ways. The establishment of the rural
mail delivery daily, and the publication of good farm papers, as well as a highly
developed intelligence of agricultural topics, have, in part, satisfied the long-
ing to meet in convention and discuss the subjects given at length in the farm
journals, and read and thought over by the farmer in his home on the long win-
ter evenings. Perhaps another reason for not holding the annual meetings,
is that the scarcity of help on the farm, keeps the farmer at home. The last few
meetings that were held revealed to the observer the fact that the attendance
was largely from the community adjoining the place where the institute was held.
It was difficult to get the farmers to attend from a distance. W. C. Monroe, a
resident and farmer of Cass township, we believe, has attended every meeting
of the farmer's institute held in Jones county. The printed record of the pro-
ceedings, is readable as general reading matter, and is a source of considerable
information along agricultural lines. A number of agricultural authorities of
prominence have addressed the institute in recent years Among the number were
Hon. James Wilson, the present secretary of agriculture, Hon. J. R. Sage, Henry
Wallace of Des Moines, President WiUiam Beardshear of Ames, and others.
THE JONES COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
No continuous record has been kept of the proceedings of the county Sunday
School Association, and for that reason it has been difficult to secure any of
those interesting details which are usually connected with the origin of such
societies. The most that can be said is that this association of Sunday-school
workers was organized in 1866.
In the pioneer days of Jones county, the early settlers were not unmindful
of the necessity of religious training of children, and of the necessity of the
development of the religious nature of mankind. Unlike the Pilgrims and the
pioneers in colonial settlements, our pioneers were not driven to the new country
through religious oppression but nevertheless, the communion with nature in its
original state, as found by these pioneers, brought to them a sense of helpless-
ness and a desire to keep in touch with some higher power, which is in its es-
sence, the development of the religious nature of man. Readers of this history
will be impressed with the fact that the place and time of the first preaching serv-
ices or the first Sunday school, as given by the early settlers, has been noted by
the historian in many cases.
The time or place of the first Sunday school in the county cannot be d^
termined. On the "Sabbath day, as was their custom," the families would devote
some time to religious study or conversation. Whether as an impromptu gather-
ing, or as a formal meeting, it could be called a Sunday school. When churches
were erected, a Sunday school was a part of the Sabbath exercises. As stated,
it is impossible to give any of the details of the first organization. The meet-
ings were held annually at different points of the county, and in many cases very
interesting and profitable sessions were held. To name the various officers,
would be to give the names of the best citizens of the county.
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The forty-third annual convention of the Jones County Sunday School Asso-
ciation was held at Wyoming, April 19th and 20th, 1909. The new officers
elected were: president, Rev. M. McGlashing of Morley; first vice-president,
Rev. H. E. Wilcox of Wyoming ; second vice-president, A. O. Zones of Morley ;
secretary and treasurer, Miss Jean Atkinson of Anamosa.
Executive committee: J. A. Doutrick of Monticello; Samuel Ellison of Mar-
telle; I. H. Brasted of Anamosa; Rev. S. B. McClelland of Onslow; John Wurg-
bacher of Morley; Mrs. Jennie Newman of Martelle. Department secretaries:
Home, Miss Nettie Chadwick, Anamosa; normal. Miss Harriet Cunningham of
Anamosa; house to house, Mrs. Alice Young, Center Junction; primary, Miss
Luella Gibson of Monticello; missionary, Mrs. T. G. Richardson of Wyoming;
teacher training. Mrs. Jennie Newman of Martelle; international bible reading,
Mrs. Port of Olin; adult. Rev. H. F. Dorcas of Center Junction. The dele-
gates to the state convention in Des Moines in June, 1909, were: Mrs. C. E.
McDaniel, Mrs. J. B. Lyon and Miss Jean Atkinson.
JONES COUNTY GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION.
This association, having for its object the improvement of the country roads
and the encourjagement of more careful driving thereon, was organized at Ana-
mosa in August, 1909. The members of the association are owners of auto-
mobiles who have realized that some organized effort was required in order to
insure the best welfare of all.
The object of the association can best be explained by quoting Article II.,
of the constitution:
Section i. Its object shall be to enlist the cooperation of all persons who
have an interest in improving the roads of the county and to institute a good
roads campaign.
Section 2. To erect signs showing direct routes between the various towns
in the county, also indicating dangerous railroad crossings, etc.
Section 3. To suppress excessive speed and reckless driving and to aid in
the prosecution of all violators of the state automobile law, and to promote
common road courtesy between drivers of all kinds of vehicles.
Section 4. To cooperate with the township trustees of all the townships of
the county in an endeavor to secure effective enforcement of the road law,
passed by the last session of the legislature
The officers and vice-presidents of the association are: president, J. H. Gild-
ner; secretary, George L. Schoonover; vice-presidents: W. A. Hales, Cass; Rev.
S. M. Murphy, Castle Grove ; E. A. Osborne, Fairview ; C. S, Peet, Greenfield ;
Nick Carson, Hale ; W. G. Ristine, Jackson ; J. S. Hall, Lovell ; R. E. Story, Madi-
son; C. E. Leffingwell, Oxford; Miles F. Miles, Rome; George Schoon, Wayne;
W G. Krouse, Wyoming.
JONES COUNTY OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.
The old settlers of Jones county have at various times formed an organiza-
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est which so closely bound them in friendship's embrace. The pioneers have
had many things in common, and it has been the most natural thing in the world
for them to find pleasure in relating their individual experiences.
The first organization of which we find any record was on April 4, 1866,
when, according to previous announcement, the old settlers of the county assem-
bled in the city hall, Anamosa. The meeting was organized by appointing Dr.
N. G. Sales, chairman. Dr. S. G. Matson was chosen secretary, and T. E. Booth,
assistant secretary. The object of the meeting was stated by Otis Whittemore.
On motion, a committee of three was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws
for the government of the association, towit: C. T. Lamson, Dr. S. G. Matson
..nd Otis Whittemore. While the committee was out formulating their docu-
ment, John Merritt, that stanch and respected pioneer of Rome, being called
upon, gave a brief history of his early life. He came to Jones county in January,
1837. I^ the June following, he selected a claim near Rome, now Olin. He
afterward returned to New York, and in 1839, again started west, by water,
bringing his family with him. He arrived near where Qinton now is, and had
not a dollar in his pocket. Those who were acquainted with Mr. Merritt will
appreciate the contrast in his financial affairs at that time and later in his life-
time, when the broad acres of which he held title in Rome, spoke of the comforts
and pleasures which were his to enjoy. After much trouble and delay, he suc-
ceeded in reaching his claim, where he, like many others of the pioneers of the
county, by perseverance and frugal industry, attained wealth and the comforts
which an abundance of means bring for old age.
At the conclusion of the remarks by Mr. Merritt, the committee reported a
constitution and by-laws for a permanent organization, and the following officers
were chosen for the ensuing term : president, S. G. Matson ; vice-president, Otis
Whittemore; secretary, J. D. Walworth; treasurer, C. T. Lamson; vice-presidents
at large — John Powell, Cass ; Joseph A. Secrest, Fairview ; E. V. Miller, Green-
field; L. A. Simpson, Hale; Thomas J. Peak, Monticello; Timothy Stivers,
Rome; Barrett Whittemore, Richland; John E. Lovejov, Scotch Grove; Thomas
McNally, Washington ; Daniel Soper, Wayne ; Thomas Green, Wyoming.
The following named persons were present at the meeting: N. G. Sales,
S. G. Matson, John Merritt, Henry Koffitz, J. Clark, E. E. Brown, B. Chaplin,
D. Graham, Otis Whittemore, G. H. Ford, J. Hutton, N. B. Homan, H. Booth,
I. Fisher, W. W. Hollenbeck, J. D. Walworth, C. T. Lamson, S. F. Glenn, A.
Sutherland, J. E. Lovejoy, G. L. Yount, S. Kelly, G. Brown, H. C. Metcalf, J.
Powell, E. Booth, Benjamin L. Matson, J. Graham, T. E. Booth, H. Hollenbeck.
C. W. Hollenbeck, B. Brown.
Another meeting was not held until September 2, 1875. At that time the
old settlers of the county met in the observatory of the exhibition hall on the
fair ground to the number of twenty.
Short remarks were made by Otis Whittemore, John Russell, A. H. Marvin,
R. A. Rynerson, Timothy Stivers and John McKean. On motion of R. A.
Rynerson, the secretary was instructed to procure the books and the funds of
the old organization from J. D. Walworth, the former secretary, then residing
at Boston, Mass. On motion of A. G. Pan^burn, it was decided to appoint an
executive committee consisting of Otis Whittemore, John Russell, A. H. Mar-
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vin, R. A. Rynerson and M. M. Moulton to draft a constitution and by-laws for
the society and to report at the next meeting. The president gave notice that
there would be a meeting of the committee at Moulton's office on Saturday after-
noon, September the i8th. On motion of Judge McKean, the meeting adjourned
subject to the call of the president, Otis Whittemore, for a permanent organiza-
tion. M. M. Moulton was secretary.
The names of those present, the state of their nativity and the year they
came to Iowa, were : Barrett Whittemore, New Hampshire, 1837 ; Edmund Booth,
Massachusetts, 1839; Thomas Green, Indiana, 1840; Timothy Stivers, New
York, 1840; R. J. Cleaveland, Massachusetts, 1841 : William Brazelton, Illinois,
1842; E. V. Miller, Ohio, 1843; Otis Whittemore, New Hampshire, 1843; Wil-
liam Cline, New York, 1844; Elijah Pangburn, New York, 1845 ; R. A. Rynerson,
Kentucky, 1845; John Young, England, 1848; A. D. KJine, Virginia, 1849; Rich-
ard H. Simpson, Illinois, 1849; J- C. Austin, Vermont, 1850; John Russell,
Scotland, 1852; S. S. Farwell, Ohio, 1852; John White, Pennsylvania, 1852;
David Ralston, Virginia, 1853; M. M. Moulton, New Hampshire. 1854; John
McKean, Pennsylvania, 1854; Robert Dott, Scotland, 1854; Dr. T. E. Mellett,
Indiana, 1855; A. G. Pangburn, New York, 1855; A. H. Marvin, New York,
1855; John Clark, Pennsylvania, 1855.
On January 15, 1886, the Jones County Old Settlers* Association was re-
organized at a meeting held at Wyoming. J. S. Stacy was elected president;
T. E. Booth, secretary and L. Schoonover, treasurer The several township
vice presidents were: Cass, A. L. Fairbanks; Castle Grove, J. A. McLaughlin;
Qay, John Russell; Fairview, B. F. Shaw; Greenfield. E. V. Miller; Hale, A.
J. Dalby; Jackson, Cabel Belknap; Madison, M. O. Felton; Monticello, Frank
Hicks; Oxford, A. Curttright; Richland, Robert Snowden; Rome, John Mer-
ritt; Scotch Grove, John Sutherland; Washington, M. Kenney; Wayne, D.
Loper ; Wyoming, J. A. Bronson. The following executive committee was ap-
pointed at this meeting : A. G. Brown, George Sutherland, W. C. Monroe, William
Brazelton, Timothy Stivers, John Tasker, Julius Carter.
The next meeting of the Jones County Old Settlers' Association we find in
connection with the Jones County Farmers' Institute which was held at Onslow
in January, 1893. 0"^ afternoon of the institute program was given over to the
old settlers. R. A. Rynerson was chairman of the meeting and delivered a
short address. President W. M. Beardshear, of the State Agricultural College
at Ames, who had been present during the institute, delivered an address which
sparkled with the clearness and thoughtfulness for which the gifted speaker
was noted. Other informal speakers during the afternoon were: A. G. Brown,
1 . E. Booth, E. E. Brown, M. O. Felton, S. L. Gilbert, John Overley, John Paul,
H. F. Paul, W. C. Monroe, Stephen Walsworth, Mrs. C. E. McDaniel, Thomas
Silsbee, H. D. Smith, S. S. Farwell, J. B. Lyon, H. H. Monroe and others.
Hon. S. S. Farwell of Monticello was elected president, A. G. Brown of
Wyoming, vice-president, and T. E. Booth, secretary and treasurer. A committee
consisting of S. S. Farwell, R. A. R)merson, A. G. Brown and T. E. Booth, was
appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, make out a program and fix the
time for the next meeting.
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Informal gatherings of the old settlers have been held at various times in
different parts of the county since the last recorded meeting. It is safe to say
that these informal gatherings have been a veritable love feast to the pioneers
as they have related incidents out of their own individual experience. One of
these notable gatherings was at Wyoming in August, 1905, when the celebration
of the semi-centennial settlement of the town brought together once more from
almost every state in the Union and from every township in the county, hundreds
of the old pioneers, to live once more in the rich and fruitful experiences of the
past. Another similar informal meeting was held during fair week in August,
1909, at Anamosa, when the city was filled with the old settlers who had re-
turned for the home-coming week and its pleasures and festivities.
The real old settler, the genuine pioneers of Jones county, are now numbered.
The rugged constitution, the hearty frame, now ripe in years, can not stand in the
balance when Father Time reaps his annual harvest. To these pioneers the pres-
ent generation owes a debt of gratitude for their heritage of prosperity, citizenship
and personal character, which nothing but appreciation can repay.
LYNCH LAW AND THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
It may not be with any degree of pride that this history must record the
fact that in an early day lynch law was brought into executicM* in Jones county.
It was in the early part of the month of December, 1857, that Hiram Roberts,
a reputed thief, counterfeiter and desperado fell into the hands of the vigil-
ance committee, about four hundred strong, near Red Oak Grove, in Cedar
county. Roberts was brought into Walnut Fork, now Olin, in Jones county,
tried by the committee, found guilty and forced to pay the penalty without the
formality of a judge and jury of his peers.
A company of people had gathered at George Saum*s house to consider what
was best to be done. The Tipton Vigilance Committee and the Walnut Grove
Vigilance Committee had matters in charge, though the Tipton committee took
the lead in the execution. While Ben Freeman had gathered the company back
of the barn and in stentorian tones was declaring what he thought was best to
be done to rid the country of these desperadoes, the Tipton committee smuggled
Roberts out of the house and in a few moments Hiram Roberts was looking up
a straight rope in the bam. He was soon taken down and borne back into the
timber and strung up to a stout limb. This tree yet stands. The next day the
limp and lifeless body was found by a brother of deceased and Wesley South-
wick who had been induced to help search for the body. The Ijody of this
counterfeiter now lies in the Olin Cemetery.
In connection with the burial of the body of Roberts in the Olin Cemetery,
it is said that at the time the Cemetery Association was organized, Roberts,
among others was asked to contribute, which he did to the amount of five dol-
lars. When it came to his burial in the cemetery, objection was made to having
the body of such a man buried on the sacred ground. Mr. Easterly who had
secured Roberts subscription, raised the point that if Roberts' money was good
enough to aid the cemetery, the cemetery was none too good as a resting place
for the body, and this argument prevailed.
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Another instance is related where two boys narrowly escaped lynching. Some
horses had been stolen, and the guilty parties were captured. At the conference
of the vigilance committee, the guilt of the parties apprehended was established
to the satisfaction of the committee. The two boys were brought in. A line was
drawn across the floor, and the committee were to vote on the question of lynch-
ing. All who are in favor of lynching, step over the line, was asked, and every
man of the committee stepped over the line. The two boys then wilted com^
pletely and begged for mercy, which was shown them. They were given their
freedom under their solemn pledge to refrain from evil. The children of these
two boys are now living in the southern part of the county and are highly re-
spected people.
At another time a meeting had been called at the Olin schoolhouse to organize
an anti-horse thief association. The horse thieves were present in such numbers
that the proposition was voted down by a safe majority.
In the early days, severe measures were almost a necessity to the end that
justice might be secured. Juries feared to condemn men whom they believed
guilty, lest they might suffer in loss of life or property. This seemed to justify
the vigilance committtce's actions.
THE COUNTY FARM.
The county farm, located in secticMi 36 of Wayne township, was origfinally
deeded to Jones county for courthouse purposes, the deed being signed by Presi-
dent Buchanan. There has been no change in the title to the original grant made
in June, 1840. When the county seat was changed from Edinburgh, the county
commissioners retained the grant for the establishment of a county poor farm.
This grant with the subsequent additions, comprising approximately three hun-
dred acres of improved land besides over thirty acres of timber land in section
9 in Scotch Grove township, now constitutes what is popularly known as the
County Home.
Jones county has always exercised a liberal policy with its unfortunate poor,
and the inmates have uniformly been treated with kindness and courtesy. While
the policy of the county has always been to decline to furnish a comfortable re-
treat for all the lazy, able-bodied, willingly dependent applicants for its charities,
nevertheless, the treatment of those who have been obliged to seek shelter and
aid, has been considerate and himiane.
The number of inmates has increased with the population of the county.
Where thirty years ago, the average attendance was about twenty, the average
attendance now is about thirty. The annual report of the steward January i,
1909, was as follows, as to the number of inmates :
Males. Females. Total.
Niunber of inmates January i, 1908 23 12 35
Received since January i, 1908 5 3 8
Died during year I 2 3
Discharged during year 6 3 9
Inmates January i, 1909 21 10 31
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The first steward of the county farm, was O. B. Doyle. Among the number
who have been steward since have been mentioned, T. Hartman, John Platncr,
S, H. Clark, Andrew McDonald, 1885; Lee Peet, 1893; T. A, King, the present
efficient and kind-hearted steward and manager began his duties in the early part
of the year 1906. No complaints have ever been made by the inmates of harsh or
unkind treatment during the stewardship of Mr. King and his industrious and
large-hearted wife. Everything in and about the county home is kept neat, tidy,
comfortable and sanitary. The building is old, and in fact not suited for the pur-
pose, but with the material at hand, a good account is given by the steward. There
are accommodation for about fifty inmates, if necessary. During the past year
or two, a fire escape has been placed on the building, the inmates department has
been repaired and improved generally at an expense of about one thousand, two
hundred dollars. Four hundred feet of six-inch sewer has been constructed, a
toilet and bath room has been added, and an effort made to make the home more
sanitary and comfortable.
At the present time there is some agitation toward the erection of a more mod-
em home, and strong arguments have been made favorable to this proposition.
The board of supervisors has been making some investigations in contemplation
of some action being taken, and no doubt ere many moons, the citizens of this
county will be given an opportunity, in a special election, to voice their will on
this question. ,
The last annual report of the steward contains so much of general interest in
regard to the products raised on the county farm, and the amoimt of property
used and on hand, that we give it in full.
LIVE STOCK AND PROVISIONS ON HAND, JANUARY I, I909.
6 horses $ 800 CX)
65 head of cattle 1,950.00
42 head of swine 258.00
150 chickens 52«oo
100 tons hay 550.00
1,000 bushels corn 550.00
150 bushels oats 65.00
160 bushels potatoes 100.00
10 bushels onions 12.00
10 bushels carrots 5-^^
Cabbage and kraut I5-00
20 bushels parsnips 5-^^
2 barrels pork 42.00
I barrel beef 16.50
60 pounds tea 1640
Tobacco 11.00
Clothing, new and unmade 4S-00
Machinery 695.00
Flour 10.00
Syrup 1500
Coal .j^ 17500
Total value on hand $S>387-90
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PROVISIONS USED AND SOLD DURING I908.
12 hogs butchered $ 180.00
I beef butchered 40.00
3 cows sold 170.00
II steers and heifers 67746
5 1 hogs sold 725.89
Qiickens and eggs used 130.00
Milk and butter used 296.00
Milk and butter sold 178.04
Total $2,396.93
In addition to the provisions which were raised and used on the county farm
during the year 1908, the county auditor's report of expenses during the same per-
iod, shows the poor farm expenses to be three thousand, six hundred and thirty-
three dollars and forty-three cents. From the same report it is learned that the ex-
penses of the poor outside of the poor farm have been five thousand, five hun-
dred and seventy-four dollars and nine cents, during the same period, making the
total expenditure for the poor in addition to the provisions raised and used on the
farm, nine thousand, two hundred and seven dollars and fifty-two cents for the
year igo8, as against nine thousand, four hundred and seventy-four dollars and
two cents in 1895. The county farm is managed as economically as is consistent
with the comfort and best welfare of the inmates.
The annual report of L. B. Peet, steward for the year 1895 showed the num-
ber of inmates on January i, 1895 to be thirty-six, and on December 31st of the
same year, forty- four. There were nine head of horses, thirty-two head of cattle,
thirty-three hogs, thirty-five tons of hay, five hundred bushels of oats, two hun-
dred and twenty bushels of potatoes, eight hundred pounds of pork, fifty tons of
coal, four barrels of molasses.
THE JUDICIARY.
Jones county has not been more fortunate than her neighbors in the necessity
of having courts of justice, where those with grievances might have their differ-
ences adjusted, their wrongs redressed, and punishment given in full measure to
those who have transgressed the laws of the commonwealth, and infringed on the
personal and private rights of their fellowmen. The "Avengers of Blood" have
never received any encouragement in Jones county. The courts have been insti-
tuted as a civilized and modern method for the maintenance of justice and the
enforcement of the laws of organized society, and in Jones county the sovereignty
and supremacy of the strong arm of the law, have been uniformly respected.
THE FIRST COURT.
The first court in Jones county convened at Edinburg, March 22, 1841. It
was not the occasion of a large gathering, and neither was the opening of court
a complex ceremony. Judge Thomas S. Wilson of Dubuque, associate justice for
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the state of Iowa, presided. The courtroom was not a forty by sixty foot room
with a twenty foot ceiling decorated with the modern beautifying adornments,
and neither was the "bench" one of mahogany, lined and cushioned with plush
and silk tassels. The courtroom was in a log cabin. The record further states,
that William H. Hutton appearing to have the required qualification, was ap-
pointed clerk. Hugh Bowen was the sheriff.
The grand jurors on that occasion were: Moses Collins, Thos. Dickson, Isaac
H. Simpson, Theron Crook, Orville Cronkhite, Jos. H. Merritt, Sylvester I. Dun-
ham, Jacob Pote, David Kulhave, A. Hostetter, John G. Joslin, Gideon H. Ford,
Henry Booth, Calvin C. Reed, Ambrose Parsons, H. Winchell, William Qark,
Thomas J. Peak, Benejah Beardsley, J. C. Raffety, Charles Johnson, The grand
jury was empanelled and sworn. John G. Joslin was appointed foreman.
The petit jurors were: F. Dalbey, Joshua Johnson, G. B. Laughlin, Barrett
Whittemore, J. E. Greene, Daniel Vance, Richard. Cleaveland, I. Merritt, Moses
Garrison, Alexander Staley, Jacob Cornwall, Benjamin Chaplin, J. E. Lovcjoy,
P. H. Turner, W. H. Jones, Alvin Winchell, Harry Hargodem, O. Delong,
Qement Russell, James Spencer, George H. Brown, Qark Joslin, Eli Brown,
George H. Walworth.
On the day following the grand jury made their report to the court with but
one indictment as follows :
Indictment for Assault to Inflict a Bodily Injury.
A True Bill.
UNITED STATES
VS.
ROBERT SNOWDEN
At this first session of court two appeal cases came up for hearing, one, United
States versus Robert Snowden, was dismissed, and the other, Francis Sibbals
versus Calvin C. Reed, was continued until the next term of court in order to
secure a more perfect transcript. The petit jury was not called. At the close of
the second day, the court adjourned.
The next session of the court was at Edinburg, September 27, 1841.
The trial of Robert Snowden on the charge preferred against him in the first
indictment found in the county, did not take place until March 28, 1842. The
petit jurors who were sworn to well and truly determine the guilt or innocence of
the party charged, were: David Hutton, S. Garrison. C. C. Walworth, Luther
Reed, W. H. H. Bowen, Jos. E. Greene, John Royal, Hiram Stewart, A. Pate,
Robert Kelso, Israel Spencer, John E. Holmes.
It is also a tradition that as the weather happened to be warm the trial was held
under a tree out doors and was verily a public trial. And that, when, at the dose
of the evidence, and the case had been submitted to the twelve men for their con-
sideration, the jury retired to a more remote tree and performed the duty required
of them.
The court record at this time recites that, "The jury aforesaid came into court
and delivered the following verdict, to wit, *We the jury find the defendant not
guilty.' " The court docket follows with the significant declaration : "It is there-
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fore considered by the court that the said defendant go hence without day, and
that the county pay the costs of the prosecution in this cause.
The court continued to meet twice a year, in May and in September, until
September, 1845. The next record shows the meeting of court at Edinburg May
24, 1847, Judge Wilson presiding. The next meeting of the court was at Lexing-
ton, September 27, 1847.
The first grand jurors at Lexington were: Jos. Miller, Matthias Porter, Jas.
P. Crawford, Isaac Every, E. Sutherland, M. Flannigan, Daniel Shoemaker, John
Tallman, T. J. Peak, S. G. Matson, John Betzer, Patrick Donahue, George Gassept,
C C Walworth, A. Beardsley, Samuel G. Baccus, Jacob Miller, Joseph Ingraham,
L D. M. Crockwell. Jacob Miller was foreman.
The only indictment found by this grand jury was as follows :
Indictment for Selling Liquor without a License,
A True BUI
STATE OF IOWA
VS.
BENJAMIN SOUTH
The defendant appeared in court in answer to the indictment, by his attorney
and filed a motion to quash the indictment, and upon hearing before the court, the
indictment was ordered quashed.
This was the beginning of the court at Lexington, afterward called Anamosa.
The court has continued to meet at Anamosa down to the present time.
THE COURTS.
The County Court. The county court was established in 1851, and was
vested with the powers previously held and exercised by the county commissioners
or supervisors. In 1861, the office of county judge was so modified as to have
jurisdiction only of probate matters, and the judge was also required to perform
many of the duties now required of the county auditor. The county judges were:
i85i-5S» Joseph Mann; 1855-57, G. C. Mudgett; 1857-58, J. J. Ruber; 1859-61,
William H. Holmes; 1862-64, John S. Stacy; 1864-70, Davis McCarn. The of-
fice of county judge was abolished, the act taking effect January i, 1870.
The Circuit Court, In 1869, the business of the district court had become so
great that a new court was created, called the circuit court. This court exercised
general original jurisdiction concurrent with the district court in all civil actions
and special proceedings, and exclusive jurisdiction in all appeals and writs of er-
ror from inferior courts, tribunals, or officers, and a general supervision thereof
in all civil matters, and to correct and prevent abuses where no other remedy is pro-
vided. The circuit court also had original and exclusive jurisdiction of all probate
matters.
The judges of the circuit court have been ; 1869 to 1873, Sylvanus Yates; 1873
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to 1881, John McKean; 1881 to January, 1887, Christian Hedges. The circuit
court was abolished January i, 1887.
The District Court, The district court has existed since the earliest days of
courts. in Jones county. Thomas S. Wilson of Dubuque, was judge of the district
which included Jones county while Iowa continued a territory, 1 841 -1846. Under
the state government, Jones county became a part of the second district, over which
James Grant of Scott county presided five years, beginning April 5, 1847. T. S.
Wilson of Dubuque county, became judge in April, 1852. Jones county became a
part of the eighth judicial district, February 9, 1853. By act of the seventh gen-
eral assembly which took effect July 4, 1858, the eighth judicial district included
the counties of Johnson, Iowa, Tama, Benton, Linn, Cedar and Jones.
The judges of the district court since 1853, have been: William E. Leffingwell,
of Clinton county, elected April 4, 1853 ; John B. Booth, of Jackson county, ap-
pointed 1854; William H. Tuthill, of Cedar county, elected April 2, 1855 ; William
E. Miller, elected October 12, 1858; Norman W. Isbell, elected October 14, 1862;
Charles H. Conklin, appointed August 19, 1864, and elected November 8th, fol-
lowing; N. M. Hubbard, appointed November 15, 1865; James H. Rothrock,
elected October 9, 1866; John Shane, came into office January, 1876, and con-
tinued until December, 1883; J. D. Giffen, came into office December, 1883, and
continued until January i, 1887, when the eighteenth judicial district was formed.
The eighteenth judicial district was created and took effect January I, 1887,
and at that time the circuit court was abolished. At this time the district court
was vested with the powers the circuit court had exercised. The eighteenth dis-
trict consisted of the counties of Linn, Cedar and Jones, and the act creating the
district provided for two district judges. The office of county attorney was also
created at this time.
The judges of the eighteenth district were: From January i, 1887, to January
I, 1895, J. H. Preston and J. D. Giffin, both from Linn county; from January,
1895, Wm. P. Wolf, of Cedar county, and Wm. G. Thompson of Linn county,
presided until the death of Judge Wolf in 1890, when H. M. Remley of Jones
county, and the first resident judge, was appointed, and later elected to fill the
vacancy ; Judges Remley and Thompson presided in the district, the former until
January, 1903, and the latter until January, 1907. By act of the legislature, which
took effect January i, 1899, the district was allowed three judges. W. N. Treich-
ler of Cedar county was elected as the third judge, bes^inning January i, 1899.
On January i, 1903, B. H. Miller of Jones county, and J. H. Preston of Linn
county, succeeded H. M. Remley and W. N. Treichler. From January, 1903, until
January, 1907, B. H. Miller, J. H. Preston and W. G. Thompson, presided in the
district. From January. 1907, F. O. Ellison of Jones county, Milo P. Smith of
Linn county, and W. N. Treichler of Cedar county, have presided, and these three
are now the judges of the eighteenth judicial district.
As at present constituted, the district court has original and appellate juris-
diction in all matters, civil, criminal and probate. Four terms are held each year
in Jones county, the dates for 1909 being March ist. May 17th, September 20th,
and November 29th.
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THE JONES COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION.
In connection with the judiciary and the courts, the Jones County Bar Asso-
ciation should be mentioned. We have been unable to get the date of the first
organization of an association of this kind in the county.
The present association was organized at Anamosa, in March, 1900, and is an
organization composed of the lawyers of the county actively engaged in the prac-
tice of the profession of the law. The present officers are : president, M. W. Her-
rick of Monticello; secretary, W. I. Chamberlain, Wyoming; treasurer, A. A.
Cole, Olin.
The association held a number of meetings when first organized but at the
present time, the organization is merely existing. A meeting is held when there is
anything that demands attention. The banquets which have been held have been
occasion when "the feast of reason and flow of soul" was abundantly manifest.
JONES COUNTY ATTORNEYS, I909.
The present members of the association and in the active practice of the pro-
fession of law in the county are :
Wyoming: W. I. Chamberlain, R. M. Corbit, N. W. Hutchins.
Monticello: J. W. Doxsee, M. W. Herrick, E. E. Reed, Wm. Welch, John
Welch, John J. Locher.
Olin: A. A. Cole.
Oxford JuncticHi : D. D. Rorick.
Anamosa: B. H. Miller, H. M. Remley, J. E. Remley, C. B. Paul, C. J. Cash,
Geo. Gorman, B. E. Rhinehart, Geo. Lawrence, Davis McCarn, J. S. Stacey.
Park Chamberlain also practices law in connection with his duties in the national
bank.
The law firms in the county are : Welch & Welch, Monticello ; Miller & Paul,
Anamosa; Remley & Remley, Anamosa; Jamison, Smyth & Gorman, Anamosa;
Herrick, Cash & Rhinehart, Anamosa and Monticello.
METEOROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGY TABLES FOR JONES
COUNTY.
The data in regard to the temperature, rainfall, snowfall and date of first and
last frost of each year for the past fifty years or more, which is herewith pre-
sented, is as near correct as the records of the weather bureau at Des Moines and
Washington could give it. For many years the weather bureau at Monticello was
in charge of M. M. Moulton, and during the later years, the station was in charge
of H. D. Smith. Those who were acquainted with Mr. Smith during his life
time, know with what precision he made his observations and kept his records.
After the death of Mr. Smith, the weather station was removed to Olin, about
the beginning of 1906. These tables will be found to be of inestimable value as
the years go by, for reference and comparison.
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EARLIEST AND LATEST FROST OF THE SEASON, AND DAYS WITHOVT FROST.
MONTICELLO.
Yraus.
Date of
r^st Frost.
Date of
First Frost.
Years.
Date of
Last Frost.
Date of
First Frost
2
1850
1851
1852
1863
1854
1856
1866
1867
1868
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
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1871
1872
1878
1«74
June 11
May 7
June 5
April 20
May 22
June 13
May 30
May 21
May 21
June 4
May 16
May 16
June 19
June 8
June 13
May 11
May 17
May 26
May 21
June 6
April 29
May 10
May 2
May 13
May 18
May 17
June 21
June 10
June 10
May 6
April 15
Sept 29
Sept 16
Sept. 16
Sept 10
Sept 20
Sept 27
Sept. 20
Sept 23
August 28
Sept 2
Sept. 12
Sept 28
Sept. 25
August 25
Sept 19
Sept 30
Sept. 21
Sept 10
Sept 13
Sept 26
October 13
Sept 21
Sept 27
Sept 8
Sept. 30
Sept 11
Sept 27
Sept 18
Sept 11
Sept 9
Sept 8
109
131
102
142
120
105
112
124
99
89
119
134
97
77
97
141
126
106
114
111
166
133
147
117
134
116
97
99
92
125
146
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888.....
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903..,..
1904
1905
No Rec.
May 29
May 81
May 30
May 19
June 3
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June 2
May 30
May 20
May 27
May 27
May 28
May 31
May 27
April 22
April 80
May 13
April 19
May 6
May 25
April 24
June 12
May 81
April 80
Sept. 12
Sept 23
Sept. 5
October 9
Sept 5
August 31
August 24
Sept. 1
Aug. •20
Sept. 13
August 28
Sept 6
August 30
Sept 11
Sept SO
Sept 20
Sept. 20
October 5
Sept 13
Sept. 17
Sept 8
Sept. 12
Sept. 17
Octol>er 11
117
97
132
109
80
61
91
82
115
92
101
181
185
188
210
209
188
214
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MONTHLY AND ANNUAL QUANTITIES OF SNOW IN INCHES.
MONTICELLO.
Date of
Date of
'Total Fall:
Years.
First
Snow
Oct.
Nov.
Dec
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
April
May
Last
Snow
1 ^ „ Yeabs
1 of Snow.
1854
12
22
4
8
8.'66
4.00
4.50
7.50
1.00
.90
.10
13.00
.16
8.00
2.20
14.00
4.50
.65
15.25
10.50
2.00
6.25
3.50
i'.oo
2.00
26
21
8
13
19.40
13.05
57.50
17.16
1855
1855
1856
1856
1857
1857
1858
1858
9
• • • «
10.00
12.00
4.00
13.00
6.50
....
20
45.50
1859
1859
10
1.00
6.00
5.00
2.00
.16
25
14.16
1860
1860
2
4.00
18.75
18.25
13.50
1.75
,
26
56.25
1861
1861
29
2
22
20
28
27
11
17
8
11
.16
2.56
1.00
4.00
.05
2.00
4.50
6.00
3.00
2.50
.30
sioi
16.09
4.50
26!66
12.25
4.62
8.50
6.81
9.50
10.65
.75
28.50
3.25
.75
2.90
9.00
13.40
3.45
19.14
13.62
5.00
5.75
6.50
10.00
10.97
14.52
12.50
6.88
15.58
.25
11.50
15.75
3.50
7.50
6.77
4.98
16.25
.75
5.40
15.11
.87
3.25
slio
i:66
8
24
12
21
28
26
1
1
16
12
59.91
21.75
46.75
42.59
39.62
51.00
17.89
54.23
55.72
18.12
1862
1862
1863
1863
1864
1864
1865
1865
1866
1866
1867
1867
1868
1868
1869
1869
1870
1870
1871
1871
31
14
29
1.05
i.46
4.00
6.62
6.35
13.25
8.27
6.75
.95
15.09
10.25
.87
5.15
11.55
20.88
5.55
.25
11.25
3.50
81
9
27
40.45
61.93
40.05
1872
1872
1873
1873
1874
1874
19
26
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.54
.25
8.00
6.30
14.96
2.00
15.80
.32
6.50
19.50
3.00
1.00
25
1
2
49-05
29.53
1875
1875
1876
1876
6
1
28
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7.25
11.62
8.08
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9.55
17.25
2.10
4.40
.50
2.35
6.50
26.60
6.25
2.00
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29
24
21
41.68
16.32
29.20
1877
1877
1878
1878
1879
1879
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1.0
4.4
11.2
4.4
2.2
6.5
1.8
6.2
1.5
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.0
22.5
17.T
1880
1880
1881
1881
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1.0
3.7
16.8
14.8
20.0
1.0
57.3
1882
1882
,
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10.6
4.8
4.2
5.2
0.5
, ,
23.3
1883
1883
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9.7
10.0
14.7
5.0
2.0
41.4
1884
1884
•
1.0
.0
2.2
9.2
7.5
5.9
6.1
5.4
11.5
8.7
7.2
6.3
8.1
2.2
19.9
3.0
.0
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36.1
22.3
45.8
1885
1885
1886
1886
1887
1887
3.5
18.8
10.8
9.1
16.0
.0
58.2
1888
1888
2.5
.0
10.1
6.5
4.3
2.0
0.2
25.6
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1889
,
0.3
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9.7
1.1
0.1
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11.2
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1890
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0.5
7.0
4.0
5.0
10.1
.0
26.6
1891
1891
3.4
2.0
2.3
3.7
20.5
0.1
32.0
1892
1892
....
6.8
9.1
6.4
4.1
1.8
6.0
T
33.2
1893
1893
....
10.5
5.5
9.0
4.2
3.1
4.0
36.3
1894
1894
0.9
0.6
5.4
6.7
4.0
0.1
17.7
1895
1895
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3.0
7.0
9.5
3.2
2.9
1.0
26.6
1896
1896
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1.0
3.3
3.0
6.3
1.4
6.0
21.0
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1897
0.5
15.5
6.1
8.5
3.3
.0
33.9
1898
1898
12.0
*.. .
18.0
11.4
5.0
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1899
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Date of
1 2
Teaiis.
First
Oct.
I
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Feb.
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1 s
Snow
1
Snow
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6.5
4.0
8.0 ll.O
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1900
1900...
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0
=1.0
3.0
10.5
11.5
13.5
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1901 . . .
Nov. 3
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9.0
1.0
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Mar. 31
1902
1902. . .
Nov. 1
14.0
2.0
7.0
5.0
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Apr. 14
Mar. 15
1908
1903.. .
Dec. 2
8.5
10.0
10.0
1904
1904...
7.2
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Mar. 19
1906
1905...
Nov. 29
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18.2
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1905...
1906..,
1907...
1908..
Oct 11
Nov. 11
Nov. 10
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0
0
2.5
3.0
6.8
2.2
4.0
8.2
11.8
6.0
5.8
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2.0
5.0
1.2
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May 1
1906
1907
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116 HISTORY OF JONES COUNTY
CIVIL WAR HISTORY.
The war record herein given is the same as was contained in the Jones County
History of 1879, with such additions as the editor has been able to find. — Editor,
If there is any one thing more than another of which the people of the north-
ern states have reason to be proud, it is of the record they made during the dark
and bloody days of the war of the rebellion. When the war was forced upon the
country, the people were quietly pursuing the even tenor of their ways, doing
whatever their hands found to do— making farms or cultivating those already
made, erecting homes, founding cities and towns, building shops and manufac-
tories— in short, the country was alive with industry and hopes for the future.
The people were just recovering from the depressions and losses incident to the
financial panic of 1857. The future looked bright and promising, and the indus-
trious and patriotic sons and daughters of the free states were buoyant with hope
— looking forward to the perfecting of new plans for the securement of comfort
and competence in the declining years of life ; they little heeded the mutterings
and threatenings of treason's children in the slave states of the south. True sons
and descendants of the heroes of the "times that tried men's soul" — ^the struggle
for American independence — they never dreamed that there was even one so base
as to dare attempt the destruction of the Union of their fathers — a government
baptized with the best blood the world ever knew. While immediately surrounded
with peace and tranquility, they paid but little attention to the rumored plots and
plans of those who lived and grew rich from the sweat and toil, blood and flesh
of others ; aye, even trafficked in the offspring of their own loins. Nevertheless,
the war came, with all its attendant horrors.
April 12, 1 861, Fort Sumter, at Charleston, South Carolina, Maj. Anderson,
U. S. A., commandant, was fired upon by rebel arms. Although basest treason,
this first act in the bloody reality that followed, was looked upon as the mere bra-
vado of a few hot-heads, the act of a few fire-eaters whose sectional bias and
freedom hatred was crazed by excessive indulgence in intoxicating potions.
When, a day later, the news was borne along the telegraphic wires that Maj. An-
derson had been forced to surrender to what had at first been regarded as a
drunken mob, the patriotic people of the north were startled from the dreams
of the future, from undertakings half completed, and made to realize that behind
that mob there was a dark, deep and well-organized purpose to destroy the gov-
ernment, rend the Union in twain, and out of its ruinr> erect a slave oligarchy,
wherein no one would dare question their right to hold in bondage the sons and
daughters of men whose skins were black, or who, perchance, through practices of
lustful natures, were half or quarter removed from the color that God, for His
own purposes, had given them. But "they reckoned without their host." Their
dreams of the future, their plans for the establishment of an independent confed-
eracy, were doomed from their inception to sad and bitter disappointment.
Immediately upon the surrender of Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln — America's
martyr president — who, but a few short weeks before, had taken the oath of office
as the nation's chief executive, issued a proclamation calling for seventy-five
thousand volunteers for three months. The last word of that proclamation had
scarcely been taken from the electric wires before the call was filled. Men and
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money were counted out by the thousands. The people who loved their whole
gfovemnient could not give enough. Patriotism thrilled and vibrated and pul-
sated through every heart. The farm, the workshop, the dfice, the pulpit, the
bar, the bench, the college, the schoolhouse — every calling offered its best men,
their lives and their fortunes in defense of the government's honor and unity.
Party lines were for the time ignored. Bitter words, spoken in moments of po-
litical heat, were forgotten and forgiven, and, joining hands in a common cause,
they repeated the oath of America's soldier-statesman, **By the Great Eternal the
Union must and shall be preserved!"
Seventy-five thousand men were not enough to subdue the rebellion. Nor
were ten times that number. The war went on, and call followed call, until it
began to look as if there would not be men enough in all the free states to crush
out and subdue the monstrous war traitors had inaugurated. But to every call for
either men or money, there was a willing and ready response. And it is a boast
of the people that, had the supply of men fallen short, there were women brave
enough, daring enough, patriotic enough, to have oflFered themselves as sacrifices
on their country's altar. Such were the impulses, motives and actions of the pa-
triotic men of the north, among whom the loyal sons of Jones coimty, Iowa, made
a conspicuous and praiseworthy record.
The compiler has sought to secure a continuous record of all the patriotic
meetings of the people of the county in the order in which they took place, but
as many meetings were held of which no record was kept, except in the faithful
breasts of loyal men and liberty-loving women, the war history must be more or
less fragmentary, and, in a great measure, not as satisfactory as he had hoped to
have made it. He had searched all the files of newspapers published in the county
at the time, and the result of his research is given below. He feels gratified to
state that enough has been secured to testify most emphatically to the unbounded
heroism and lofty patriotism of the loyal citizens of Jones county during the days
of the nation's darkest forebodings. No county in the state sent out braver men,
and no state in the Union can boast of a more glorious record.
UNION MEETING.
Pursuant to notice, the citizens of Jones county, irrespective of party, assem-
bled in mass convention at the courthouse, in Anamosa, on Saturday, the 19th day
of January, 1861, at 11 o'clock A. M.
On motion of Dr. N. G. Sales, Messrs. Davis McCam and E. V. Miller were
appointed temporary chairmen, and Matt Parrott and J. L. Sheean, secretaries.
On motion of W. G. Hammond, Esq., the chair was empowered to appoint a
committee of five on permanent organization, and appointed as such committee
Messers. W. G. Hammond, N. G. Sales, George W. Field, C. Chapman and C. T.
Lamson.
E. Cutler, Esq., moved that the convention adjourn for one week — ^the late
storm having prevented an attendance from the other parts of the county. Lost.
On motion of O. Burke, Esq., the chair appointed O. Burke, J. J. Dickinson,
S. T. Pierce, E. Cutler and J. Mann as a committee on resolutions. The committee
assembled at the time designated.
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The committee on permanent organization reported as follows: president, G.
W. Field; vice-presidents, Messrs. J. Mann, W. H. Holmes and F. L. McKean;
secretaries, Messrs. John S. Stacey and J. L. Sheean — which report was received
and adopted.
The committee on resolutions, not being ready to report, the convention was
addressed by N. G. Sales, W. G. Hammond and others. The committee on reso-
lutions appeared, and, through S. T. Pierce, Esq., reported the following preamble
and resolutions :
Whereas, The people of Jones county, in mass convention assembled, without
distinction of party, believing that the present unhappy condition of our country
demands the immediate and serious attention of every good citizen and patriot;
and, further, believing that it is idle and impolitic to discuss the cause of present
calamities, but most expedient to search for a remedy which will cure our present
difficulties and secure to us permanent and national* tranquility, and to that end
and for that purpose we will divest ourselves of party feelings and sectional pre-
judices, in order to best promote and secure present and future harmony and
union ; therefore,
Resolved, That we are unwilling now to abandon or in the least endanger the
Union of the states, which has existed so long with such unprecedented results,
both as to our individual and national happiness and prosperity.
Resolved, That the federal government is one of limited power derived solely
from the Constitution, and the grants of power made therein ought to be strictly
construed by all departments and agents of the government.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the equality of the states in the distribution
of all benefits and burdens of our government, and a prompt, energetic and im-
partial administration of all constitutional laws; and upon this principle we
stand, hoping and demanding of our senators and representatives in congress that
they will make every effort in their power to effect an equal, liberal and equitable
adjustment of present national difficulties.
Resolved, That we love and cherish the government under which we live, and
hold in high esteem and regard our brothers of the southern states, and regret
that there are mutual subjects of complaint and difference existing between the
northern and southern sections of our confederacy, and believe that our differences
can be better settled in the Union than out of it, and that such difficulties and dif-
ferences can be arranged and settled if a mutual spirit of forebearance and good
^ill is exercised by both our northern and southern brethren, and that it is a right
and a duty we owe to each other to make just concessions to restore peace and
harmony between the different sections of the country.
Resolved, That, in the words of James Buchanan, "resistance to lawful au-
thority, under our form of government, cannot fail, in the end, to prove disastrous
to its authors f that we therefore appeal to our southern brethren to cease such
resistance and to submit the questions in dispute between us to the constitutional
authorities of our common country.
Resolved, That, in the noble stand taken by Maj. Anderson in defense of the
flag of our Union and the property it should protect calls for the admiration and
respect of every lover of his cotmtry.
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On motion of N. G. Sales, the report of the committee was received and the
committee discharged. Moved that the resolutions be voted on separately. Lost.
On motion of W. H. Holmes, the resolutions were adopted. N. G. Sales moved
that the proceedings of the convention, with the resolutions adopted, be published
in the Anamosa Eureka and the Marion Democrat, Carried. S. T. Pierce moved
that a copy of the proceedings and resolutions of this convention be forwarded
to each of our senators and representatives in congress. Carried.
Oh motion, the convention adjourned sine die. John S. Stacy and J. L.
Sheean, secretaries.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS' RESOLUTIONS OF LOYALTY, JUNE 6, 1861.
The supervisors of Jones county closed their labors Thursday, June 6, 1861,
by passing the following :
Whereas. The great American nation has, under the kind guidance of Al-
mighty God and a patriotic and liberty-loving people, safely passed through
eighty-four anniversaries without the hand of a domestic traitor having been
raised to overthrow the noble fabric of constitutional liberty raised by the patri-
ots of the Revolution ;
And Whereas, In the present year of grace, 1861, and on the eve of the eighty-
fifth anniversay of our national independence, we see, for the first time, numerous
and thoroughly organized traitors raising their fratricidal hands with a view to
force the dismemberment and overthrow of the best government on the earth,
we deem it expedient to call upon the whole people of Jones county to come to-
gether on the approaching 4th day of July, and, with united hearts and hands
manifest their devotion to the nation, its unity, and the principles of the Declara-
tion of Independence ; therefore
Resolved, That the board appoint a committee of citizens from each township,
request them to make all necessary arrangements for the celebration of the eighty-
fifth anniversary of American independence.
Resolved, That we recommend that the citizens of the whole county assemble
at the grove half a mile south of the center of the county, in the northeast comer
of Jackson township, and bring with them such provisions and lumber as will be
sufficient to provide tables and refreshments for all.
Resolved, That the committee be requested to provide a band of music, powder
and speakers for the occasion.
Resolved, That the following individuals in the various townships are hereby
appointed a committee to make all necessary arrangements; and they are re-
quested to meet on the ground where said celebration is proposed to be held, on
the 20th day of June, at 10 o'clock A. M., and there take such action as to them
may seem proper: Names of committee — Cass, E. B. Alderman; Castle Grove,
Thomas J. Peak ; Clay, John Russell ; Fairview, N. G. Sales, C. C. Buell ; Green-
field, Elias V. Miller; Hale, Don A. Carpenter; Jackson, Daniel N. Monroe;
Madison, John Niles; Monticello, W. H. Walworth; Oxford, Milo C. Lathrop;
Richland, Isaac Willard; Rome, Charles H. Lull; Scotch Grove, A, J. Allen;
Washington, Thomas McNally; Wayne, Noah Bigley; Wyoming, James A.
Bronson.
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Resolved, That the sum of one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is hereby appropriated from the county treasury for the purpose of
providing music and powder.
Thus it is seen that the board of supervisors of Jones county, in 1861, were
decidedly loyal and eminently patriotic.
PATRIOTIC MEETING IN ROME.
A union meeting was held in the grove near the village of Rome, on the 24th
of May, 1861. The citizens of the town and vicinity turned out en masse. The
meeting came to order by electing Ezra Carpenter, Esq., chairman.
A patriotic and soul-stirring address was delivered by the Rev. O. E. Aldrich,
which was received with frequent demonstrations of appfeuse by the people. Af-
ter the address, three cheers were given for the Union, with a vim that spoke love
for our county and death to traitors. A company of home guards at this time was
nearly full. E. C. Rigby was the secretary at the above meeting.
THE COUNTY FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION.
A grand county celebration of the 4th of July, took place in pursuance of the
resolutions and suggestions of the board of supervisors, made at their June meet-
ing in 1861. The celebration was on Thursday, the 4th of July, 1861.
The perilous condition of the country brought men of all parties together to
observe the anniversary of our national birth, and to repeat anew their vows to
freedom. Early in the morning, teams, singly and in companies, began to throng
from all parts of the county toward the point which had been designated by the
board of supervisors, near the center of the county. At 10 o'clock, a. m., the
scene was the strangest of the kind ever encountered in the west. The road ran
along a high ridge, and on both sides of it and on each of the wide and gently
sloping spurs, shooting out every few rods, were horses, wagons, buggies, car-
riages, men, women, children and babies by the thousands; and, in every direc-
tion, the American flag floated in the light and refreshing breeze, which, with
the shade of the sufficiently abundant oaks, tempered the heat of a warm summer
day. Such an assembly in a city is common enough, but this was an assembly in
the wilderness. Not a house, not a sign that man had touched nature here was
visible, save in the few brief days' labor of the committee of preparation. It was
a fitting place wherein to assemble on such a day and for such a purpose, when the
nation was in its life and death struggle for existence.
The committee of arrangements had done as well as could be hoped for in the
short time allowed them, and better than could have been expected. On the
rather steep slope of a spur, north of the road, a staging had been erected facing
up the slope, and, in front of this, seats sufficient to accommodate, perhaps, one
thousand persons. Back of the stage, and at the bottom of the ravine, a well had
been dug some ten or more feet deep, and, at the bottom, a barrel fixed. It was
a comical sort of a well, but it served the purpose, in a measure, for some hours.
On another ridge and back of the wall, stood the six-pounder, manned by the
Wyoming Artillery Company, in gray shirts, under Capt. Walker. The other
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military companies were the Canton Company, Capt. Hanna ; they wore red mili-
tary coats, were armed with rifles and were fine looking; the Rough and Readys'
of Rome, Capt. L. A. Roberts, with blue military coats, white pants and glazed
caps, sixty-five men, also fine looking; Carpenter's Company, Rome, Capt. Car-
penter, eighty men, with gray coats, likewise made a fine appearance ; the Green-
field Company, mounting eighty men, John Secrist, commander; these were in
frock coats and wore white plumes ; they, too, showed well, and still more in drill
and fitness tor the most desperate fighting ; the Scotch Grove Guards, from Scotch
Grove, Capt. Magee, formed a large company ; these wore no uniforms, but their
appearance indicated they were the right men for fighting. There were six com-
panies of young men, all formed and drilled, in the space of three months. It
appears that all these entered the army in due time and did good service.
The proceedings at the stand were patriotic and entertaining. During the
reading of the Declaration of Independence, the general attention was close, and
the responsibilities of the hour seemed to impress all minds. The singing, with
the marshal waving the star-spangled banner to the words, was very effective.
The address was by a Mr. Utley — a good Union speech, and was very generally
approved. Music by the various military bands was abundant and lively. The
picnic that followed was much enjoyed by all who partook of dainties provided
for the occasion. The military went through with some of their exercises and
then the proceedings of the afternoon began, which consisted of speeches from
different persons, when, owing to a want of an abundant supply of water, the vast
assembly was dispersed at a much earlier hour than it otherwise would have been.
It was evident that the loyalty of Jones county could be relied upon, and that
her citizens were ready to do their full duty in crushing out treason.
INCIDENTS OF ENLISTMENT.
Up to the 19th of July, 1861, Jones county had sent no company of its own to
the war. but had contributed many of its best citizens to companies raised in
adjoining counties.
At least a half-dozen men went into Capt. Leffingweirs mounted company.
Four went from the village of Bowen's Prairie, viz., Howard Smith, Orin Crane.
Theodore Hopkins and Isaac White. Their departure for the seat of war was
the occasion of a very pleasant scene which occurred at their rendezvous in the
beautiful grove near the residence of Otis Whittemore. The Home Guards of
that town, under command of Lieut. Isaac Willard, escorted them some miles on
their way, after a solemn leave-taking and addresses by Messrs. Bates, Searle,
Johnson, O. Whittemore, Willard, Briggs and Hopkins. Rev. Mr. Searle was
with the mounted escort, and offered, on horseback, a prayer that was alike im-
pressive in itself and in the circumstances and situation of its delivery.
Mr. White had not volunteered with the rest, but sat watching the proceedings,
when Curtis Stone, Esq., rode up on a fine horse, the best he owned. *'If I had
that horse," said White, "I would go too.*' "Take it," was the reply. "It is
yours." No sooner said than done. White vaulted into the saddle and started to
fight for his country.
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Here is another incident, which we take from the Dubuque Times (dated in
July, 1861):
**A Patriotic Clergyman, — A gentleman from this city has been enlisting men
in Jones county for the cavalry company of which Col. Heath is lieutenant. In
Scotch Grove township, a young man enlisted and went to a clergyman to buy a
horse. The reverend gentleman said he had no horse to sell for this war, but,
pointing to the best one he had, 'There's one,* said he, 'which you are welcome
to.' "
Such patriotism is praiseworthy.
FIRST COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS.
About the loth of August, 1861, William T. Shaw, Esq., who had been ap-
pointed commissary by the governor, was notified that a company of volunteers
would be accepted, and he immediately went to work to raise it. The various
companies of Home Guards were invited to come to Anamosa, and on Monday,
the I2th of August, twenty-eight wagons came in from Rome, Hale, Jackson and
Madison townships, bringing a company under Capt. Carpenter. Tuesday, some
eighteen or twenty wagons arrived from Scotch Grove, with thirty-five men,
under Capt. Magee, and accompanied by thirty ladies. This latter company was
met at the depot by those who came the day previous and the Greenfield Home
Guards, who escorted them to the Fisher House, the Scotch Grove ladies falling
into the procession behind, and remaining in line with them until dismissed for
dinner.
In the afternoon, a meeting was held at the city hall, for the purpose of filling
the company, electing officers, and so forth. But, unfortunately, a split occurred
in r^^rd to the destination of the company. The Scotch Grove boys said they
volunteered under a promise to be taken to Washington, and did not want to
go anywhere else, while Mr. Shaw had orders for the company to proceed to
Davenport, from whence they were to go to Missouri. The Scotch Grove boys
and fifteen volunteers from Bow en's prairie finally withdrew, declaring they
would make up another company.
The company under Captain Carpenter remained, and most of them signed
the muster roll. The election resulted in the unanimous choice of D. A. Car-
penter for captain. The company not being full, men were sent out to drum up
recruits, and at the time of starting, the company numbered sixty-three men.
Thursday morning was the time fixed upon for the departure of the com-
pany. At an early hour, the friends of the volunteers came pouring into town
by hundreds. The men were formed into line in front of the Fisher House, and
each one was presented with a testament by the Jones County Bible Society. Rev.
Mr. Eberhart making a few appropriate remarks during the presentation.
Mr. Buell was then called upon, and briefly addressed the company, pving
them some good advice, wishing them God-speed and a safe return, and bidding
them farewell.
The company was then marched to the depot, where was assembled the largest
crowd seen in the town for a long time. Many ladies were present through the
entire morning and up to the moment the cars started. There were many sad
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faces and a few cheerful ones ; many, tears, and some manly tears, too, were shed.
The boys took their seats, the conductor gave the word, and the cars and their
precious load were off.
Thus the first Jones county company was formed and took its departure for
the seat of war.
GRAND TURN-OUT OF MILITARY AND CITIZENS.
Monday, the 19th of August, 1861, was an epoch in the history of Jones
county. If any one had ever doubted the patriotic feeling of its citizens, they
could no longer do so. The fires of patriotism burned brightly in their bosoms,
and their devotion to the cause of civil and religious liberty was clearly evinced
by their ardor in responding to the call of their country, and showed, beyond a
doubt that the noble blood of '76 was still coursing in their veins; and they
were prepared, if necessary, to shed their blood for the preservation of those
rights and that liberty which were won by the blood and sacrifices of our fathers.
It had been announced that on Monday, the 19th inst., the company of Jones
county volunteers, under Captain Harper, would meet at the picnic grounds near
Monticello, and be presented with a flag by the ladies of Bowen's Prairie.'
About noon, the volunteers from Scotch Grove, Clay and vicinity, began to
arrive at Monticello accompanied by a large concourse of friends. After par-
taking of dinner provided by the landlord at Monticello, the procession, consist-
ing of sixty-four teams, proceeded to the grounds with banners flying and drums
beating. Upon arriving at the grounds, the procession from Bowen's Prairie
was seen winding its way into the grove, consisting of volunteers, people, colors
and music. The two processions soon formed themselves around the speaker's
stand, and the meeting was organized by calling John D. Walworth to act as
president. An appropriate and eloquent prayer was then offered by the Rev.
Mr. Bates, of Cascade. Mr. Clark then sang the "Red, White and Blue."
After the song, Miss Emma Crane, in behalf of the ladies of Bowen's Prairie,
then presented the company with an elegant flag accompanied by the following
address :
"Jones County Volunteers: As the representative of and in behalf of the
ladies of Bowen's Prairie, I appear before you holding in my hand the emblem
of our country's purity, liberty and greatness — ^the Stars and Stripes. I have
the honor and pleasure of bestowing upon you and consigning to your charge
this banner, as the free gift of the ladies of Bowen's Prairie; and, upon your
reception of this simple favor, may I be allowed the privilege of briefly ex-
pressing the sentiments of its donors; and I would especially impress upon
your minds the idea that I come not fresh from the school-girl's sanctum, with
a labored essay of fairy scenes and flowery fields, to quiet your minds to a stan-
dard of peaceful home life. No! I come to speak to you of the agitated
state of your country, in which woman feels, or should feel, the same spirit of
animation the governs your purposes and actions. And if, in thus assuming
this prerogative, my language should seem uncouth or lack versatility, I hope
I may receive the charitable indulgence of all, for, you must be aware, to com-
municate upon a topic that very seldom falls to the lot of a woman, and in a
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time and under circumstances tiiat have never before presented themselves to
the women of our country, is an eflfort that demands the tongue of excellence.
"We now look upon you in a military capacity, organized as a band of soldiers,
and each of you more or less animated by the enthusiasm that universally per-
vades every true American heart at this time. While looking out upon the
scene before you, of mighty convulsions, an extensive civil war threatening the
very foundations of the noble institutions of our government upon which our
individual prosperity is based, we come to ask of you : What is the standard of
your enthusiasm? Is it a lofty standard of public morality? Do pure and
exalted conceptions of truth and justice pervade your hearts? We shall acknowl-
edge nothing less than this from each of you. You want our reasons? You
shall have them. This is no time for idle speculations or timid misgivings.
For a score or more of years the mighty sluice-ways of political corruption
have been opening and swelling, fed and fostered by an arbitrary disposition on
the part of a few, to curtail and crush out the noble privileges enjoyed by the
masses, till the people see looming fires of destruction in the distance, and
awake at once to a sense of their danger and act as exigency dictates. Our
country's traitors are aroused, and announce their right to destroy the Union,
and they have placed themselves in an attitude to carry out their intentions at
the point of the bayonet. * ♦ * Soldiers! we have put to you one plain
question, and we will now submit one still plainer. Are you afraid to fight?
If so, you are not worthy recipients of that flag which was purchased, and that
dearly, by blood; and it must be sustained and protected, however difficult, by
the same element, else look at the result — the country broken and ruined in all
her institutions, and naught left but here and there the segments of what it
once was. * * * We have too much confidence in you and in our cotmtry's
defenders to suppose that such a state of things can ever exist in our land.
Here we see men ripe with patriotism, sound in sentiment, full of vigor, quick
in conception to thus early see and do their duty and their country's need, full
of pride, ambition and native dignity, freely responding to their country's call.
And now, soldiers, divesting myself of every disposition to flattery, we have
reason to feel proud of you — ^Jones county has reason to feel proud of you —
that thus you so willingly enroll yourselves, and freely leave your homes, your
firesides, your parents, brothers, sisters and families to support your country's
flag. Now take this flag, and may its folds proudly wave above your heads
wherever your country calls! Let no hishonor ever stain this emblem, and in
advance upon the foe may it be found in the van! Take it! Go with willing
hearts! Defend! Sustain it! Bring it back untarnished! Then look for
happy homes and ever-greeting friends."
The presentation address was replied to by Captain Harper on behalf of the
company, in a few appropriate remarks, thanking the ladies for their beatitiful
gift, and pledging themselves to bear it aloft in the van and to defend it while
one was alive to uphold it, and return with it or on it. Rev. Mr. Bates, of
Cascade, was then called upon, and made an eloquent speech in behalf of the
Union and the Constitution, and, among other things, urged the necessity not
only of praying, but fighting. Rev. Mr. Russell addressed the crowd in a few
appropriate remarks upon the necessity of maintaining the government and
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sustaining law and order at any sacrifice and at any cost. Rev. Mr. Benton,
of Anamosa, also spoke to the volunteers words of encouragement, and assured
them of the sympathy and confidence of their friends, and maintained that the
cause for which they were engaging to fight was a righteous one and must Be
triumphant.
In accordance with a resolution of the Jones County Bible Society, a Testa-
ment was presented to each of the volunteers, in behalf of the society, by the
Rev. James McKean, of Scotch Grove. In making the presentation, Mr. McKean
briefly addressed the company, urging each to be governed by the precepts
taught in that book. John Russell of Clay township, replied in behalf of the
company. Appropriate remarks were made by the chairman urging the duty of
volimteering for the defense of our country, our dearest rights and our blood-
bought principles. The recruits then fell in and were marched to the table, where
they and a large number of others partook of a bountiful collation, prepared by
the generous-hearted people of Bo wen's Prairie.
After partaking of refreshments, a large portion of the crowd dispersed,
while some remained to listen to other patriotic addresses. The day was one
long to be remembered by the patriotic citizens of Jones county, and fraught with
bursts of enthusiasm for Liberty and Union.
Captain Harper's company was the second sent out from Jones county.
FLAG PRESENTATION AND DEPARTURE.
Monday, the 4th of November, 1861, witnessed a large turnout of the inhabit-
ants of Anamosa and vicinity to attend two flag presentations; one to Captain
Bueirs company and one to Captain Warner's company, and the departure
of Captain Buell's company for camp at Davenport, Captain Warner's company
having already left for the same place the week previous.
Early in the morning, teams and people began to come and Captain Buell's
company formed in front of the Fisher House, under First Lieutenant Calkins,
preceded by the Anamosa Brass Band, and next by the ladies who got up and
were to present the flags, and followed by the soldiers in ranks, the procession
marched to the hill west of the depot, where the ceremonies took place.
The committees were: For Captain Buell's company — Mrs. L. A. Eberhart,
Miss Eliza Isbell and Miss Emma May; Standard Bearers, Miss Emma May
and Miss Lecia Hopkins. For Captain Warner's company — Mrs. P. Smith,
Miss Carrie Heacox and Miss Emma Crane; Standard Bearers, Miss Alice
Crane and Miss Marcia Crane. Miss Eliza Isbell presented the flag to Captain
Buell's company, with the following eloquent remarks:
Captain BuelL It is with intense emotion that we are called to mingle in
these passing scenes. That the present state of our country requires the sacri-
fice of such a noble band of men, is a fact which thrills our hearts with pain.
Yet we greatly admire that lofty patriotism which leads you thus to turn away
from the comforts and endearments of home to serve our country. It requires
far more than ordinary devotion to the cause of freedom, and it is in token of
our appreciation of such devotion that we present to you these our national
colors. Never have we loved the Stars and Stripes as we do now. They have
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indeed become a bond of union between the hearts of all true American free-
men, and never will we yield our glorious standard to the hand of tyranny or
oppression.
We give it to you, knowing that you love it, that you will protect it, that you
will fight until our flag shall wave from north to south, from shore to shore
of our loved and native land. Our patriotic enthusiasm is aroused as we b^n
to realize the glory of those deeds which have been accomplished under the
shadow of our national banner. But it is mingled with thoughts of indignation
against those who trample it in the dust.
From our hearts we bid you God-speed in the contest between liberty and
despotism.
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Then accept this humble offering from the ladies of Anamosa; and whilst you
are engaged in the strife abroad, we, with weaker hands, but with patriotic hearts,
will plead with the Invisible One in behalf of those who defend our rights, and
for the speedy triumph of our holy cause. That the shield of the Eternal may
be your defense, that each one of you may return to your homes, crowned with
the glory of successful warfare, that you may yet behold this nation restored to
prosperity, and so purified by this fearful struggle as to become a fit model to the
nations of the earth, is a prayer in which our inmost souls shall daily join. But
should any of these proud forms be laid low by traitors' hands, it will be falling
nobly. Our grateful hearts shall cherish the memory of your patriotism, and if
you are as faithful in the service of God as we believe you will be in that of your
country, it will be passing away with earthly laurels on your brows to unfading
crowns above.
Captain Buell responded in a feeling manner, thanking the ladies for their
beautiful gift, and pledging himself to defend it to the best of his ability. Three
cheers were then given for the ladies of Anamosa, three more for the Stars and
Stripes, and three more for the Jones County Volunteers.
The next flag was now brought forward and presented to Captain Warner,
who had tarried behind his company for a few days. Miss Carrie Heacox made
the presentation in few but feeling words, as follows :
Captain Warner: In behalf of the ladies of Anamosa, I present you this
flag, and with it, I assure you, go our spontaneous sympathies and our heartfelt
considerations for you and yours. Go, brave men, to defend the American flag
and the sacred rights guaranteed to us by our glorious Constitution. With you
go our fervent prayers and fondest hopes that you may return with this flag vic-
torious, and that it may ever wave over the land of the free and the home of
the brave. God bless you. Captain, and your noble-hearted men. We bid you
an afi^ectionate farewell.
Captain Warner thanked the ladies in behalf of his company, for the flag,
and said they would always hold them in grateful remembrance.
The flags were got up handsomely by the ladies of Anamosa, and the his-
torian takes pleasure in recording the event to their honor. The presentation,
and, in short, the whole affair, showed the depth and intensity of the feeling
which pervaded the whole community, in regard to the war and its objects.
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The cars had now arrived from Springville; the noble boys and their officers
entered, and away they went toward the seat of war.
FAREWELL SUPPER.
A number of Masons and Odd Fellows having joined the companies which
had left the county recently, the members of the two orders united in getting
up a supper for the brothers who were going to the war. The supper came off
on Friday evening, November i, 1861. The members, with a large company
of ladies, met in Odd Fellows' Hall about 8 o'clock, J. H. Fisher, Esq., acting
as chairman. After music by the Anamosa band and singing by Messrs.
Shaw, Lamson, Holmes and Smith, Captain Buell was called for, who came for-
ward and made a brief but eloquent and patriotic address.
Lieutenant Calkins was then called for, and made a short address.
From this place, those present repaired to the city hall, where three long
tables w ere spread with the substantial and delicacies.
After all had satisfied their hunger, the chairman announced that J, D. Wal-
worth had been appointed toast reader. The following were the toasts and
responses :
The Iowa Volunteers — May they all prove as brave as the Iowa First.
Response, Three cheers for the Iowa First.
loiK^a — A model to the States of our Union in hearty response to the call of
freedom, and in her devotion to science and literature.
Col. H\ T. Shaw — May he command the confidence of the brave men he
is appointed to lead.
Response by Captain Buell.
Music — The inspirer of our most hallowed religious and patriotic emotions;
a source of most exalted pleasure, and one which exerts the most powerful in-
fluence upon the destiny of a nation.
Song by Messrs. R. F. Shaw, Lamson, Holmes and Smith.
The loiva Volunteers — May they put a full Dott to the rebellion.
Response by Robert Dott.
May the fair hands which prepared this sumptuous repast receive ample re-
ward by enjoying the satisfaction that brave hearts have gone forth better pre-
pared for the existing emergency.
Response by John McKean.
The lotva Volunteers — May Heaven's blessings be theirs.
Response by Rev. S. A. Benton.
Our Country's Arms — ^The fair arms of daughters and the /ir^-arms of her
sons ; may the embrace of the one ever be the reward of an honorable use of the
other.
Response by C. T. Lamson.
After singing Bums' Farewell, the company dispersed,
SANITARY COMMISSION.
The ladies of Wyoming met November 20, 1861, for the purpose of organ-
izing a society auxiliary to the "Army Sanitary Commission of the State of
fowa," having for its object the relief of the sick and wounded in hospitals.
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Mrs. W. H. Holmes was called to the chair, after which the following offi-
cers were elected: President, Mrs. O. B. Lowell; vice-president, Mrs. A. W.
Pratt; secretary, Mrs. J. R. Stillman; treasurer, Miss Martha White; depositary,
Mrs. A. G. Brown.
Committee to Solicit Contributions, Mrs. J. McDonough, Mrs. J. DeWitt,
Mrs. J. Richards, Mrs. R. Freeman, Mrs. D. Hogeboom, Miss R. Huckle, Miss
L. Gilbert and Miss R. Green.
The society voted to meet Tuesday afternoon of each week for the purpose of
making such articles as are needed in the hospitals and to receive donations for
the same object.
The ladies of Monticello formed a "Soldiers' Aid Society" at about the same
time with the following officers :
President, Mrs. E. P. Kimball; vice-president, Mrs. C. E. Wales; secretary,
Mrs. J. Reiger; treasurer, Mrs. N. Comstock; depositary, Mrs. G. S. Eastman.
Directors — Mrs. W. H. Merriman, Mrs. J. L. Davenport and Mrs. G. S. Eastman.
Committee of Solicitations. Mrs. T. C. West, Mrs. H. Rosa and Mrs. J.
P. Sleeper.
The society met every Wednesday afternoon.
An efficient organization was organized at Anamosa also, about the same
time, with the following officers :
President, Mrs. O. P. Isbell; treasurer, Mrs. B. F. Shaw; secretary. Miss
Eliza Isbell.
Committee on Supplies, Mrs. L. Eberhart, Mrs. Israel Fisher, Miss Mary
Work.
Committee on Forwarding. Mrs. L. Deitz, Mrs. E. Littlefield, Miss Eliza
Isbell.
These societies did much good and the supplies forwarded at sundry times
were properly appreciated by the sick and wounded in the hospitals. A num-
ber of other similar organizations were instituted in different parts of the
county and almost numberless meetings held. The amount of good done by
these organizations throughout the country to alleviate the sick and wounded
can hardly be estimated.
FLAG PRESENTATION TO THE IOWA NINTH BY THE BOSTON LADIES.
On the 3d of August, 1862, the Boston ladies made a flag presentation to the
Ninth Iowa Regiment ; and, as a goodly number of the Jones county soldiers did
noble service in that regiment, we record the details of the event in the Jones
County History.
The presentation of colors to a company or regiment by its friends and
neighbors had become of common occurrence, but this presentation, by the
ladies of Boston, to a regiment in the wilds of Arkansas, a thousand miles dis-
tant and near the extreme western frontier — and that, too, to men who were per-
sonally strangers to the donors — ^was an event as honorable to the boys of the
Ninth as it was rare.
Captain Wright, of Company C, sent the following account to the Independ-
ence Guardian :
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Camp of the Ninth Iowa,
Helena, August 3, 1862.
Today has been a proud and glorious day for the Iowa Ninth. At 2 o'clock
this afternoon, we were called into line, not to fight, but to receive one of the
finest stands of regimental colors in the army of the southwest, presented us by
the ladies of Boston, Massachusetts.
The regimental flag is white silk on one side and crimson on the other. On
the white side is beautifully inscribed, in gilt letters "Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March
7 and 8, 1862." In the center, held by two greyhounds, is the scroll with the
words, *'Iowa Greyhounds." This is over the eagle, which is in the center of the
flag, with the Iowa coat of arms, all of which is encircled with a beautiful gold
border. On the other side, handsomely embellished in gold letters, are the words,
*'From your countrywomen of Massachusetts," with the coat of arms of the old
Bay State, and the words, "Pea Ridge," again inscribed on the field under the coat
of arms, with the same border. On the flag-staflf is a fine gold-bronzed eagle,
with a splendid gold tassel in his mouth. The staflf is so arranged that the flag
can be detached by a spring and folded in a moment, making it very convenient,
if you wish to fold it in a hurry.
The other is the national flag, with its blue field and its broad stripes, one
large star in the center of the field, encircled with thirty-four more in a gold
ring or border, and the words "Pea Ridge, March 7 and 8, 1862," inside the
circle — the flag-staff and tassel the same as the other.
Need I tell you that we were proud when those beautiful flags were unfurled
to the breeze, to be carried forward to victory by the Iowa Ninth? If you could
have seen those patriotic tears roll down the cheeks of our brave boys, while our
noble Colonel, with a heart almost too full for utterance, was replying to the
patriotic sentiment of the mothers and sisters of Massachusetts, you would join
with me in saying the flag is in safe hands.
COPY OF THE ADDRESS OF BOSTON LADIES ON PRESENTATION OF FLAGS.
Our Countrymen — Soldiers of the Ninth Iowa Regiment:
We desire to present you with these, our national colors, as an evidence of
our interest in you as soldiers of the Union, and as a token of our grateful ad-
miration for the valor and heroism displayed by you on the memorable field of
Pea Ridge. ♦ ♦ ♦
We have anxiously looked for tidings of you, from those early September
days when you were first assembled at Camp Union, to the cold, dark days of the
late winter ; and, although the order onward was long delayed, yet, when it came,
so readily did you obey it that we found it no easy task, even in our imagina-
tion, to keep up with the "double-quick'* of the "Iowa Greyhounds." The memory
of the patient devotion with which you have unfalteringly borne toil, fatigue,
hunger and privation, and the recollection of your brave and gallant deeds on
the 7th and 8th of March, 1862, will long be treasured in our hearts; and, al-
though we think with sorrow of the sad price of such a victory, and the un-
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bidden tears must flow at the thought of the brave hearts now stilled forever,
yet we feel a pride in the consciousness that her noble sons feel no sacrifice too
great for their and our beloved country.
God bless the Union ! God bless you and all soldiers of the Union armies 1 is
the fervent prayer of your countrywomen in Massachusetts.
Boston, Massachusetts, July lo, 1862.
William Vanderver, colonel of the regiment, made reply, addressing the
soldiers of his command in a brief but pathetic and patriotic style.
ANOTHER OFFERING FROM JONES COUNTY.
Thursday, August 14, 1862, was another day of unusual interest to Mon-
ticello and to the citizens of Jones county.
On the day mentioned, the recruits enlisted under Farwell and Jones, of Mon-
ticello. and Blodgett of Bowen's Prairie, came swarming in from Monticello,
Bowen's Prairie, Scotch Grove, Wayne, Cass, Castle Grove and other towns, and
proceeded across the river at Monticello, to Clark's Grove, where preparations
had been made to receive them. They were attended by the Anamosa band,
several bands of martial music and a crowd of citizens numbering nearly two
thousand.
Here the crowd listened to speeches from Rev. Mr. Dimmitt, Prof. Hudson
and many others. Dinner was served and a good time was had, and a large
number added to the enlistment — about forty enrolling themselves and becom-
ing soldiers for the Union. Patriotic feeling ran high and could not endure
expressions of rebel sympathy. A few citizens, who would have been at home
in a more southern latitude, became very obnoxious by their disloyal criticisms.
Some of these were "interviewed" this day by a concourse of incensed Union-
ists, and were compelled, by hempen persuasion, to take the "Oath of Allegi-
ance." One prominent offender escaped by aid of a fleet horse and gathering
darkness; a few were taken from their beds at midnight, but safely returned,
after being impressively sworn to loyalty and Unionism. The soldiers would
have committed violence, had they not been restrained by their newly elected
officers.
An election was held and resulted in the choice of the following cheers:
-captain, S. S. Farwell, of Monticello; first lieutenant. Rev. F. Amos, of
Scotch Grove; second lieutenant, James G. Dawson, of Wayne; orderly, F. H.
Blodgett, of Bowen's Prairie.
THE DRAFT.
Notwithstanding the unbounded enthusiasm and the large number of volun-
teers, it became necessary to resort to forcible enlistments in Jones county.
The following table shows how many men each township had failed to raise
in order to fill its quota up to December 12, 1862, and how many had been
raised in excess of quota ; also the number of men required to be raised in each
township by draft or volunteer enlistment by the ist of January, 1863 :
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Number
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Townships. Deficit. Excess. Drafted.
Cass 4 . . i
Castle Grove 22 . . 7
Clay 25 .. 8
Fairview 4 . . i
Greenfield 26 . . 9
Hale 5 . .
Jackson 5 . . 2
Madison 7
Monticello 4 . . i
Oxford 4 . . I
Richland 23 . . 8
Rome 8 ..
Scotch Grove 10
Washington 14 '. . 5
Wayne 10 . . 3
Wyoming 36
141 66 46
It will be seen by the above table, furnished by S. F. Glenn, draft commis-
sioner of Jones county at the time, that Wyoming carried off the banner, and
Scotch Grove was next in furnishing volunteers.
THE FLAG OF THE NINTH IOWA.
After the Vicksburg campaign, the flag presented to the regiment by the Mas-
sachusetts ladies having become tattered and torn in the bloody strife, was re-
turned to its donors as evidence that it had faithfully served its purpose. While
the Ninth was on its way home to enjoy a brief furlough, as re-enlisted veterans,
another flag reached them from the ladies of the old Bay State. On this flag were
the following inscriptions :
"Ninth Iowa Volunteers — 1863 — from Massachusetts." "Pea Ridge, March
7 and 8. 1862." "Chickasaw Bayou, Dec. 29, 1863." "Arkansas Post, January
II, 1863." "Jackson, May 14, 1863." "Vicksburg, May 19 and 22, and July 4,
1863."
The excitement growing out of the prospect of a draft was such that vol-
unteer enlistments continued to such an extent that no draft was had until about
the 1st of November, 1864. The number drafted was not large and those who
were thus made soldiers, proved themselves brave and valiant men. It is proper
to state, also, that it was afterward ascertained that the quota of the state was full
at the time the draft was ordered, and therefore, ought not to have been made.
Washington's birthday at anamosa, 1864.
The 22d of February, 1864, was made the occasion of a festival in honor
of the veteran soldiers who were at home at the time, on a short furlough. The
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morning opened with beautiful weather and so it continued through the entire
day, the only drawback being mud to the depth of one to three inches, where
the snow had disappeared. In the afternoon the people and soldiers came in on
foot, on horseback and in wagons. At 5 o'clock, the soldiers came into Odd Fel-
lows' hall, under charge of their officers, and an address of welcome to the Iowa
Veterans was made by W. G. Hammond, and the response by Captain McKean,
of Company D, of the Ninth.
A sumptuous supper was then served at city hall, and at least six hundred
persons partook of the repast. Still there was enough and to spare, and bas-
ket fu Is were gathered up and distributed to widows and others, with whom for-
tune had dealt more or less unkindly.
After supper, the hall of the Odd Fellows was again full. The following
were the toasts on the occasion :
The Day tvc Celebrate,
Response by C. R. Scott.
The Iowa Ninth — ^The heroes of Pea Ridge, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas
Post, Jackson, Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
Response by cheers and band.
lozva — Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou hast excelled them
all.
Response by G. W. Field.
The Patriotic Dead — Green be their graves, sweet their rest and hallowed
their memory.
Response by the choir.
The American Union — What God hath joined together, let no rebel put
astmder.
Response by Jutlge McCarn, and band.
The Union Army — May its distinguishing characteristics be fortitude in the
hour of disaster, courage in the hour of danger and mercy in the hour of victory.
Response by John McKean.
The American Eagle,
Response by the choir.
Abraham Lincoln — Like Washington, first in war, first in peace, and first
in the hearts of his countrymen.
Response by Rev. O. W. Merrill.
The following volunteer toast was handed in by John Peet:
The American Eagle — May she conquer all her foes and establish a per-
manent resting-place in the center of our Union, with her wings extending from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, holding the stars and stripes in one of her talons and
the sword of justice in the other, and in her beak the Declaration of Independ-
ence, as a surety to the oppressed of all nations that here they can find protection;
and may her tail be expanded over some northern cavern where rebel sympa-
thizers and Tories may hide from the sight of historians, that our history may
not be tarnished by a record of their infamy.
Altogether, the day passed and terminated happily to all concerned.
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THE FOURTEENTH IOWA INFANTRY.
The Fourteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry was organized by authority of the
war department, under a call for three hundred thousand troops for three years,
and mustered into service on the 6th of November, 1861.
Previous to the completion of the muster of the regiment, three companies,
A, B and C, were detached and sent on service to Fort Randall, Dakota Terri-
tory, where they remained until the fall of 1862, when authority gave organiza-
rion to three new companies in lieu of those detached. On the 27th and 28th of
November, 1861, the command — seven companies— embarked for Benton bar-
racks, and remained in this camp of instruction until the 5th of February, 1862,
when they again embarked for Fort Henry, Tennessee, and arrived there on the
8th. On the 12th, they took up line of march for Fort Donelson, Tennessee,
and were in the engagement on the left of the army, daily, the 13th, 14th and
15th. Remained at Fort Donelson until the 7th of March, and embarked for
Pittsburg Landing, and arrived there on the i8th inst. On the 6th of April,
the army was attacked, and the Fourteenth moved out in position on the left of
the Fourth Brigade, Second Division, Army of the Tennessee. The regiment
was engaged from 7 o'clock a. m., until 5 :40 p. m., when the command was sur-
rendered by Brigadier General Prentiss to the enemy as prisoners of war, and
were held as such until the 12th day of October, 1862, when they were released
on parole, sent to Benton barracks for reorganization, and declared exchanged
November 19, 1862. On the 31st of March, 1862, two new companies, A and B,
joined the regiment. Left Benton barracks, April 10, 1863 ; embarked on board
of transports for Cairo, Illinois, where they remained until June 21, during
which time they were joined by Company C, a new company, when they em-
barked for Columbus, Kentucky. On the 22d of January, 1864, the regiment
moved on board a transport for Vicksburg, Mississippi, where it was assigned
to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps. Was on the ex-
pedition that went from Vicksburg to Meridian, Mississippi, in the month of
February, 1864, under command of Brigadier General Major Sherman, and on
the expedition up Red River, Louisiana, in the months of March, April and May,
under command of Major General Banks. Was in the battle of Fort De Russey,
March 14, and the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, April 9, 1864, and battle
of Yellow Bayou, Louisiana, May 18, 1864.
The regiment was in the battle of Lake Chicot, Arkansas, June 6, 1864, and
arrived at Memphis, Tennessee, June 10, 1864. Four companies left Jefferson
Barracks, September 25, by rail for Pilot Knob, Missouri, and were in the battle
of Pilot Knob September 27. The remainder of the regiment left Jefferson Bar-
racks October 2, with General A. J. Smith's army, in pursuit of the rebel, Gen-
eral Price. Returned to St. Louis, Missouri, November 2, arrived at Daven-
port, Towa, for muster-out, November 2, 1864.
The Fourteenth Regiment was largely made up of Jones county boys, and
commanded by Colonel W. T. Shaw, of Anamosa.
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RE-UNION AT MONTICELLO, AUGUST I4, 1865.
Monday, the 14th of August, 1865, was made memorable to the citizens of
Jones county by reason of the Soldiers* reunion on that day at Monticello.
The exercises took place in the grove north of the river, and on the identical
spot where three years before Company H, of the Thirty-first Iowa, was organized.
Company H displayed a trophy, as a memento of the rebellion, a large flag, cap-
tured in Columbia, South Carolina, on the 17th of February, 1865, when the com-
pany entered that city.
The arms and accouterments of Captain Alderman's company, brought in
boxes on the train, having arrived on the ground, the soldiers of Company H
and some others were soon engaged in arraying themselves. The "boys in blue"
were here entirely at home. They chatted, laughed and joked during the process,
and worked with a perfect abandon and as though they were still in the woods
of Alabama and Georgia. This work accomplished, the dnrnis, in another part
of the grove, beat the roll-call, and the soldiers streamed along through tfie
crowd, closely followed by the lighter legs of the children, and these by tlie
grown people. Two lines of soldiers were at once in position. Major Farwell,
Captain Burdick and Captain McKean were the officers in command. The sol-
diers, about eighty in number, went through guard mounting and inspection, and
were intently watched by the spectators; this over, the boys were drilled for a
time, greatly to the admiration and pleasure of many spectators. The drill over,
the boys marched to the old position in front of the benches, and, after some
additional exercises, stacked arms. The speaking was then commenced. W. H.
Walworth was president of the day, who offered introductory remarks.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Kimball.
Music by the band.
Welcome address by W. H. Walworth.
Response by Lieutenant Amos.
Music by the Monticello Glee Qub.
Address by Captain M. P. Smith, of Company C, Thirty-first Iowa.
Music by the Anamosa brass band.
Picnic dinner.
AFTERNOON.
Martial music.
Volunteer toasts and responses :
"Resolved, That our late war was only the supplement to our Revolution with
England, and has only completed the work of establishing the inalienable rights
of humanity and justice between man and his fellow man.'*
Responded to by Professor J. Nolan, of Cascade.
"Jeff Datns — Occupying an elevated position in the South, may he occupy a
still more elevated position in the North."
Responded to by Rev. Mr. Buttolph.
"What the soldiefs fought for. may we all remember."
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Response by Captain O. Burke, Company B, Fourteenth Iowa Veteran Vol-
unteers.
Rev. Mr. Miller, of Cascade, Professor Allen, of Hopkinton, and Elder Kay
and Lieutenant Hill, of Cascade, also spoke with good effect. Mr. A. Gilbert
spoke feelingly. He had lost two sons in the war, one being shot dead, and the
other dying in a rebel prison. The addresses, one and all, were appropriate and
fitting to the time and the occasion.
A general rejoicing was had that the war was ended and peace restored.
COL. WILLIAM T. SHAW, OF ANAMOSA.
The name of this gentleman is so identified with the history of Jones cotmty,
particularly its military history, that a brief biographical sketch of that distin-
guished soldier and citizen seems altogether apropos.
Colonel William Tuckerman Shaw was bom September 22, 1822, at Steuben,
Washington county, Maine. He was the son of Colonel William N. Shaw and
Nancy Stevens, his wife, of the above place, and, after receiving his education
in the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, went to Kentucky as a teacher; but the
war with Mexico breaking out, he enlisted in the Second Kentucky Infantry
Regiment, Colonel McKee, commander. He served to the close of the war, par-
ticipating in the memorable battle of Buena Vista, and was in the thickest of
the fight on the hill-slope and ravine where it raged with greatest fury. After
the declaration of peace, he aided in clearing our southwestern borders of hostile
Indians who were annoying the border settlers.
Having obtained a reputation for noble daring, he was chosen, in 1849, ^
the leader of the first party which crossed the plains to California, leaving Fort
Smith, Arkansas, via Santa Fe. The party consisted of thirty-six men, from
New York, Kentucky, Louisiana and Arkansas.
After returning, he made another trip, starting from Council Bluffs, and at
this time had but a single associate, but made the journey in safety.
In 1853, ^^ came into Jones county and settled at Anamosa, where he con-
tinued to reside until his death in 1909.
At the outbreak of the rebellion in 1861, he was among the first in Jones
county to buckle on the sword to fight for the Union. On the 24th of Octo-
ber of that year, he was elected colonel of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry R^-
ment, which owed its organization very largely to his instrumentality. A his-
tory of the regiment is given elsewhere.
Colonel Shaw distinguished himself in every engagement in which his com-
mand took part, as an able and efficient commander. He was advanced to the
command of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, and
it is historic that it was owing to his indomitable courage and military skill that
the army of General Banks was saved from utter defeat and capture in the Red
River expedition. It was on this memorable occasion that Colonel Shaw acquired
the title of "Grim Fighting Old Shaw."
After the Red River expedition, his command was sent to assist in driving
the rebel General Price out of Missouri, and was successful in so doing.
His term of service having expired, he was relieved by the following order:
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Headquarters Right Wing Sixteenth Army Corps.
Harrisonville, Mo., October 29, 1864.
Special Order No. 132.
I. Colonel W. T. Shaw, Fourteenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, is relieved
from command of the Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, and will forthwith
rejoin his regiment at Davenport, Iowa. The quartermaster will furnish trans-
portation for himself and authorized servants.
II. In relieving Colonel Shaw from the conmiand of the Third Division,
prior to his being mustered out, it is but an act of justice to an energetic, thorough
and competent officer to say that for the last fifteen months he has been in this
command, as commanding a post, brigade and division, and in every position has
performed the incumbent duties faithfully and well, with an ability that few
can equal, with courage, patriotism and skill above question. The service loses
an excellent officer when he is mustered out. By order of
J. Hough, A. A. G. Major General A. J. Smith.
As Colonel Shaw was about to part with his compatriots in arms, the officers
of his command presented him with a costly sword and scabbard — one of the
most beautiful and tasteful weapons ever made. He returned to his home at
Anamosa, Iowa, and during the remainder of his life was engaged in farming,
banking, railroading and real-estate business. Many of the public enterprises of
Jones county are largely the result of the energy, skill and perseverance of
Colonel Shaw. A more extended biography of Colonel Shaw will be found in
Volume II of this history.
soldiers' memento — left-hand writing.
In the latter part of the year 1867, W. O. Bourne, editor of the Soldiers^
Friend, New York, and others, oflFered premiums for the best specimens of left-
hand writing by soldiers who had lost their right arms in the war of the rebel-
lion. The premiums were awarded in October of that year. There were ten
premiums of $50 each, and each premium being named after some distinguished
general or admiral, thus: Grant Premium, etc. Each soldier obtaining a pre-
mium was rewarded also by an autograph letter from the officer from whom
the premium was named. The only Iowa soldier who received a premium of
this nature is Morgan Bumgardner, Company B, Ninth Iowa Volunteer Infan-
try, and a resident of Jones county. He was awarded the Sheridan premium.
The following is the letter of General Sheridan :
Fifth Avenue Hotel, October 3, 1867.
To Morgan Bumgardner, Company B, Ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry:
It is gratifying to me to inform you that the manuscript prepared by you has
been selected for the Sheridan Premium, offered by William Oland Bourne,
editor of the Soldiers' Friend, New York.
I am happy thus to recognize the success of a soldier who has lost his right
arm for his country. In the battle of life before you, remember that the true
hero may sometimes suffer disaster and disappointment, but he will never sur-
render his virtue or his honor.
Cordially wishing you success and reward in life. I am yours, etc.,
P. H. Sheridan, Major General, U. S. A.
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HISTORY OF COMPANY B, NINTH IOWA REGIMENT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
{Taken from the record prepared by D, E. Rummel at the close of the wa/r.)
Company B, Ninth Regiment Iowa Veteran Voltmteer Infantry, First Bri-
gade First Division Fifteenth Army Corps. Organized in Jones cotmty, Iowa,
August, 1861. Mustered into United States service for three years, September
2, 1861 ; re-enlisted, January i, 1864. Company B, Ninth, Iowa, was composed
largely of the citizens who enlisted from Rome and adjoining townships.
COMPANY OFFICERS.
♦Captain, John W. Niles
♦First Lieutenant, Walter James
CORPORALS.
♦David E. Rummel
♦Silas H. Stall, wd., May 22nd, 1863
♦Irvin Finch
♦Ambrose U. Harrison
♦George L. Johnston
♦Aquila B. Crow, wd., May 20, 1863.
SERGEANTS.
♦ist William J. Graham, wd, 11-27, 62
♦Samuel Robinson
♦Andrew H. Hall
♦William Starry
♦Samuel P. Kerr.
MEMBERS IN THE RANKS.
♦Hugh, Alexander
♦Blakely, Nelson D. wA Aug. 31-64
Bryan, William J.
Brown, James M.
Cox, Albert
Covert, Alonzo W.
Craig
Denny, Ebenezer
♦Fry, Enoch, wd. May 22-63
Fisher, Jonathan C.
Gilmore, Charles
Green, Albert, wd Mar. 21-65
Gippert, Jacob
Gorsuch, Andrew
Holmes, Austin C.
Homcsby, Marion
Hart, James T.
Jones, Jonathan
Jenkins, John
Lukecart, James
Moore, John D.
Moore, James
Miller, Robert H.
♦Matteson, Daniel M.
McKennie, James R.
McCardle, James
Porter, George
Palmer, Henry C.
Phipps, James T.
Rudd, Harvey
♦Roberts, Lyman A.
♦Stillman, James R.
♦Stuart, Charles T.
Stuart, John A.
♦Sealls, Amos
♦Voile, John
Vaughn, Samuel I.
♦Warner, James M.
♦Weaver, Francis
♦Wells, Eli V.
Yeager, Harvey B.
TRANSFERRED.
Captain Don A. Carpenter, promoted to major, August i, 1862.
Sergeant William T. Peet, January 6, 1864, Volunteer Regiment Company.
Private George C. Crane, January 6, 1864, Volunteer Regiment Company.
David W. Dunham, September i, 1863, Volunteer Regiment Company.
William Crook, October 9, 1861, Company K.
• Veteran
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MUSTERED OUT FOR
Capt. Paul McSweeney, Jan. 15-65
Sergt. Jas. B. Stephens, Sept. 24-64
Sergt. John M. Mason, Sept. 24-64
tCorp. WilHam H. GHck, Sept. 24-64
Barker^ Uzal, Sept. 24-64
Colby, David, Sept. 24-64
McGowan, Calvin, Sept. 24-64
Torrence, Adam C, Sept. 24-60
Thomas, John, Sept. 24-64
EXPIRATION OF SERVICE.
2nd Lieut. Wm. L. Jennings, Sept*
22-64
Sergt. Qement H. Lane, Sept. 24-64
Corp. Owen Farley, Sept. 24-64
tAiler, Geo. F., Sept. 24-64
t Baldwin, Marcello O., Sept. 24-64
tHull, Benj. E., Sept. 24-64
Rich, Nelson, Sept. 24-64
t Welch, James M., Sept. 22-64
DISCHA&GBD
First Sergeant Lorenzo D. Carlton,
December 22, 1862.
t First Sergeant Morgan Bumgardner,
November 30, 1863.
Sergeant Edward H. Handy, July 29,
1862.
Corporal John M. Price, December 6,
1862.
Corporal Morgan Crane, January 12,
1864.
Colby, Charles, December 23, 1861.
Hammond, George, December 31,
1861.
Sherman, Benedict, January 18, 1862.
Arnold, Riley, January 18, 1862.
Overacker, Horace T., January 18,
1862.
Green, Benton, January 27, 1862.
Finch, Elkanah D., March, 1862.
Merritt, Horatio N., March 11, 1862.
Tarbox, Manville, January 18, 1862.
Taylor, Isum, May 2. 1862.
Freeman, Hannibal, April 18, 1862.
Whitney, John H., May 13, 1862.
Hagar, Horace, July 4, 1862.
Isabel, Jonas, July 29, 1862.
Wade, Aaron L., July 24, 1862.
McGuigan, Thomas, August 27, 1862.
Works, Joseph S., August 9, 1862.
Brickley, James T., October 9, 1862.
Steward, Joshua, October 13, 1862.
McCarty, Charles, December 11 ^
1862.
Brown, James J., Dec. 11, 1862.
Winn, Welcome B., December 6,
1862.
tBates, Charles, December 19, 1862.
McMillan, James, March 11, 1863.
Miller, David E., March 11, 1863.
Qeaveland, Richard J., March 21^
1863.
Green, Jasper, April 21, 1863.
S , Joseph, September 7, 1863.
Robinson, Samuel O., February 4^
1864.
Metcalf, Arthur, December 8, 1864.
MISSING IN ACTION.
Long, Daniel R., May 27, 1864. Hitchcock, Thomas N., May 27, 1864.
DEATHS.
First Lieutenant Jacob Jones, killed
May 22, 1863.
Sergeant Thomas W. Blizzard, killed
May 22, 1863.
Corporal Isaac Walker, killed May
22, 1863.
Corporal George H. Bowers, killed
May 19, 1863.
Corporal Louis J. Tourtellot, died
March 20, 1863.
Corporal Jonathan Luther, died Nov-
ember 2, 1864, in prison at An-
dersonville, Georgia.
t Wounded
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Easterly, Lawrence, died January 25,
1862.
Osbom, John V., killed March 7,
1862.
Ensign, Devolso B., died April 12,
1862.
Harrison, Benjamin F., April 30,
1862.
Sterling, George G., June 6, 1862.
Bunce, Theo. L., February i, 1863.
Gault, Moses, March 11, 1863.
Irvin, Isaac, killed May 20, 1863.
Mattison, Elisha C, killed May 22,
1863.
Eastbum, Charles, killed June 30,
1863.
Fuller, Oliver N., October 15, 1863.
Long, Joel, December 22, 1863.
Cornwell, John L., Nevember 30,
1863.
Beaman, Daniel, March 17, 1864.
Long, George W., killed May 27,
1864.
Robinson, Henry, killed Jtme 23,
1864.
Steward, William, July 5, 1864.
Robinson, Isaac R., of wounds, Aug-
ust 28, 1864.
Weeks, Stephen M., October 15, 1864.
Seeley, Norman, in prison at Ander-
sonville, Georgia, April 20, 1864.
ENGAGEMENTS.
Sugar Creek, Arkansas, February 17, Resac?i, Georgia, May 13, 1864.
1862. Dallas, Georgia, May 27, 1864.
Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 7tli and New Hope Church, June 4, 1864.
8th, 1862. Big Shanty, Georgia, Jime 12, 1864.
Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, Decem- Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 23,
ber 29, 1862. 1864.
Arkansas Post, Arkansas, January 11, Nicko Jack Creek, Georgia, July 6,
1863. 1864.
Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863. Atlanta, Georgia, July 22 and 28, 1864.
Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 19 to 22, Jonesboro, Georgia, August 31, 1864.
1863.
Siege of Vicksburg, May 11 to July
4, 1863.
Siege of Jackson, Mississippi, July 10,
1863.
Cherokee Station, Alabama, October
24, 1863.
Piney Creek, Alabama, October 27,
1863.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, Nov-
ember 24, 1863.
Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, Nov-
ember 25, 1863.
Ringold, Georgia, November 27, 1863.
Lovejoy Station, Georgia, September
I, 1864.
Little River, Alabama, October 25^
1864.
Savannah, Georgia, December 19^
1864.
Wateree River, South Carolina, Feb-
ruary 15, 1865.
Columbia, South Carolina, February
17, 1865.
Bentonville, North Carolina, March
21, 1865.
Raleigh, North Carolina, April 14, 1865.
Organized in Jones county, Iowa, August, 1861. Mustered into United States
service for three years, September 2, 1861 ; re-enlisted, January i, 1864.
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HISTORY OF COMPANY H, THIRTY-FIMT EEGIMBNT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
The following history of Company H, Thirty-first Regiment, Iowa Volunteer
Infantry was prepared for, and read at the occasion of the dedication of the
soldier's monument in memory of Company H, at Monticello, Iowa, May 31,
1909, by Montgomery Marvin, of Manchester, Iowa, a member of the company.
Company H, Thirty-first Iowa, had a number of Monticello people in its ranks.
This data makes valuable history. — Editor,
Ladies, Gentlemen and Comrades : As you meet today to dedicate this mon-
lunent to Company H, Thirty-first Regiment, Iowa Infantry Volunteers, it is
right and proper that the part which Company H took in the great struggle for
liberty and union from 1 861 to 1865, should be fully told. This is a Company H
Day.
This beautiful monument is the gift of your fellow citizen and much hon-
ored townsman. Major S. S. Farwell, who was in command of the company
from its organization until its discharge.
As I was a member of the company, and orderly sergeant for the greater
part of the service, and with the company until just before the last battle in
which they were engaged, it is proper for me to pay tribute to the donor of this
monument as we saw him as a soldier. He was ever beloved by the men of his
command, for he was a soldier who never shirked duty or responsibility. He was
always interested in the welfare and comfort of his men. If they were sick or
wounded, he would visit them, and administer what aid or comfort was possible
and in battle he never said **go boys" but it was always "come on boys." Where
there was danger he was ready to lead in the charge. He went where duty
called him. The discipline of his company was second to none in the regiment.
He did his duty faithfully and well. He knew no retreat.
Company H was made up of young men who were your neighbors, school-
mates, lovers, brothers and husbands.
They were mostly young men from Scotch Grove, Wayne, Castle Grove,
Monticello and Bowen's Prairie. They were of the best and most promising
of your citizens. Some of you, here today, were present on that autunm day
in September, 1862, when they took the train and left for the battlefields. You
remember well the sad parting of fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, sisters and
lovers with their dear ones who would never return to them again.
Company H took an active part in the great struggle for the preservation of
this Union. We left our rendezvous at Davenport, November i, 1862, on a
steamboat and went to St. Louis, where we remained only a few days. From
there we went by boat to Helena, Arkansas, where we were in camp a few weeks,
when we left for Chickasaw Bayou up the Yazoo River. From there we went
up the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers to Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863.
After that battle we went down the river again to Young's Point, Louisiana, and
took part in General Grant's winter campaign against Vicksburg. Much of the
time there we were working on Grant's canal. In April our brigade went up the
river to Greenville, Mississippi, and made a raid through the Deer Creek valley
destroying corn and mills that were supplying Vicksburg with commeal. We
also destroyed large quantities of cotton and many cotton presses. We then
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went down the river again to Millikin's Bend to find we were the rear of the
troops to go below Vicksburg on the Louisiana side to Grand Gulf. After cross-
ing the river we were hurried to Jackson, Mississippi, and were just in time to
enter the city May 14, 1863. On the 15th we helped form the right wing of the
army and marched to the investment and seige of Vicksburg where we were
under constant fire of the enemy for forty-eight days, or until July 4, 1863, when
the rebel army surrendered. We took part in that memorable and fatal charge
of May 22, 1863.
On July 5th in the early morning, we started after General Joe Johnson,
who was on the east side of the Black River and occupied fortifications at Jack-
son. After a few days fighting at Jackson our brigade made a flank movement to
the north and were engaged with the enemy at Canon. The enemy retreated,
when we returned to the west side of Black River, where we camped for about
two months. Our ranks had become so depleted that there were scarcely enough
able bodied men to do camp duty in the regiment. About the 20th of Septem-
ber, we were again in motion. We took boats at Vicksburg for Memphis, then
took transportation on the top of box-cars for Corinth, Mississippi, where we
remained a few days and took part in the Iowa state election, in October. We
then marched to luka, Cherokee Station and Tuscumbia, then returned to Chero-
kee Station, and were the rear of the army to cross the Tennessee River at
Eastport. We then marched by forced march to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the
relief of General Thomas. We reached there in time to be engaged in the "Bat-
tle in the Clouds" on Lookout Mountain. November 24, 1863, and from there to
Missionary Ridge and Ringgold. We then moved back to Bridgeport on the
Tennessee River where we remained a few days when we marched west to
Woodville, Alabama, for winter quarters, which place we reached on December
31. 1863. after a hard day's march in. the rain on the railroad track. We were
fortunate to camp in a cornfield where we could get rails enough to spread our
blankets on to keep us out of the mud. In the morning of January i, i864t,
many of us awakened to find our blankets frozen to the ground and the field was
frozen so hard that the mules could pass over it without breaking through. This
was the memorable January ist, which was the coldest and most disagreeable
day ever experienced in the country.
We soon moved our camp to the south slope of a hill in the timber where
we fixed up comfortable huts made of logs and split red cedar. Many of us
built fireplaces in our little cabins where we enjoyed our first and only "winter
quarters" for four months. On May i, 1864. ^^ '^^^ our little village of huts,
and started on the Atlanta campaign, which lasted for four months. We marched
to Chattanooga then south through Snake Creek Gap and to Resaca, where we
were hotly engaged. We then advanced and were engaged in the battles of
Dallas. Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River, Atlanta, Jonesboro and Love-
joy's Station. During much of this campaign, we were skirmishing and under
fire of the enemy for many days at a time. We then returned to E^st Point,
where we rested for about one month. On October 4th, we started north in
pursuit of the enemy under General Hood who had swung around to our rear
and cut our communications with the north. We marched north through Mari-
etta to Altoona where General Coarse was entrenched, and defeated the rebel
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amiy. We continued north to Resaca, and Snake Creek Gap, then southwest
after the enemy into Alabama. About the time General Hood's army was cross-
ing the Tennessee River we went back towards Atlanta and reached the vicinity
of the Chattahoochee River north of Atlanta on November 5th. On November
6th, eight recruits came to our company. These were Frank Hicks, John
McConnon, John Matthews, William Galligan, Chauncey Perley, John McDonald,
James Martin and John Clark.
On November 8th we voted at the presidential election for the second elec-
tion of Abraham Lincoln. The votes of our regiment at that time may be
of interest to many, so I will give it as it appears in my diary carried at that time.
This result also shows about the number of men present in the regiment, ten
companies, as all with us were voters regardless of age.
Abraham Lincoln 229
General McClellan 30
The vote on the state ticket was :
Union 220
Democratic 31
On Jones county ticket:
G. P. Dietz, for clerk 72
No opposition.
After tearing up the railroad and cutting all communication with the north,
we started on "Sherman's march to the Sea," November 15, 1864.
We passed through Atlanta, and on to Macon, where our second division was
engaged. We then turned to the east and marched near the Savannah and Macon
railroad, tearing it up and completely destroying it. On this march we fared well,
as the country through which we passed and for miles around had more sweet
potatoes, bacon, chickens, honey, horses, and so forth, before our visit than
after. We arrived in the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia, December 10, where the
enemy was well fortified, and they held us in check for ten days. Here we were
very short on rations and were obliged to go into the rice fields and get rice
from the straw and pound off the hulls as best we could, then cook rice and
hulls, and make the best of it. We had but little else to eat for several days.
Occasionally we could secure a little com or commeal brought in by our for-
agers, and some times a little fresh meat.
On December 21st the enemy having skedaddled during the night we marched
within the line of the fortifications where we camped several days, and were re-
viewed by Generals Logan and Sherman.
We left Savannah about January 13, 1865, and went by steamer to Beau-
fort, South Carolina, where we camped a few days when we started on our
trip through the Carolinas. We marched northwest and north, through im-
mense resin and turpentine forests and reached the vicinity of Columbia, on the
15th of February, 1865. On the evening of the i6th, we were ordered to the
front, and spent the night crossing Broad River on a rope ferry built during the
night by the pontoon train within sight of the rebel picket fires. At daylight
only about three regiments had crossed, when all were deployed as skirmishers,
and advanced through the timber. The rebel pickets and reserves were taken
in. The regiments soon after reformed in the open fields on the hills when they
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saw a carriage coming f rcwn the city carrying a white flag. Colonel Stone of the
Twenty-fifth Iowa then in command of the brigade rode out to meet it, when
he received the surrender of the city by the mayor, while the rear of the rebel
troops could be seen in the distance.
Colonel Stone then took the flag of the Thirty-first Regiment, our regiment
being in advance, and rode into the city and placed "Old Glory" on the state
capitol of South Carolina. The Thirty-first Regiment was the first regiment
of Union troops to enter that stronghold of secession, on the morning of Feb-
ruary 17, 1865, and we were eye witnesses of the great conflagration in the
evening.
From there we marched northeast through Camden and Cheraw to Fayette-
ville, North Carolina, where I was ordered by the division surgeon from the
ranks, while doing full duty, to report to the ambulance train to go down the
river to Wilmington on a river boat which made communication with us there.
Company H continued on the march, and soon after fought its last battle
at Bentonville, North Carolina. It then continued its march to Raleigh and
thence to Washington to the grand review. From there it was sent to Louis-
ville, Kentucky, where its members were mustered out June 27, 1865.
Company H was enlisted and organized in August, 1862, and was mustered
into the United States service, October 13, 1862 at Davenport. The company
then numbered ninety-four enlisted men and three commissioned officers. Dur-
ing the year 1864, ^^ received twenty-two recruits, making a total membership
during the service of one hundred and twenty-two men. Of this number,
forty-seven died in the service, fourteen were discharged on account of wounds
and disability, two were transferred and one was captured.
Company H was in twenty-five battles and in many of them we were under
fire for several days at a time, as will be seen on another page.
During the year 1864, we were under fire of the enemy eighty-two days, 01
nearly one quarter of the time, and we marched during that year one thousand,
and eight miles. These items are taken from a diary carried by me during
1864. From the time Company H left the state until it fought its last battle at
Bentonville, North Carolina, it had been under fire of the enemy nearly one-
fifth of the time. Not always on the fighting line, but either there or on the
reserve which was usually as dangerous. The record for Company H is also a
record for the Thirty-first Regiment so far as it relates to service.
I might have given a more detailed record of our many battles, privations,
scarcity of rations and incidents of marches and campaigns, but time and your
patience forbid.
Such was our service for the cause of liberty and imion. We did our part
well in the great struggle for the preservation of the Union which cost the north
three hundred thousand lives and billions of dollars in money, besides a million
of disabled soldiers and. dependent families. It is now costing this nation mil-
lions of dollars yearly to pay pensions to the disabled veterans and the families
of veterans of that war. All this is what disloyalty has cost and is costing this
nation, and still we have disloyalty in our midst. All violations of law are evi-
dences of disloyalty. I appeal to all citizens, men, women, teachers, yes, every-
body to make it their duty to teach loyalty, obedience to the law, then will we
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truly have a powerful and united nation with no danger of a repetition of the
terrible w'ar of 1861 to 1865.
MEMBERS COMPANY H, WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE.
1. Fred H Blodgett
2. David \V. Perrine •
3. William S. Johnson
4. John W. Cook
5. Samuel Williamson
6. Edgar G. Himes
7. Newton Bently
8. Benjamin Batchelder
9. William S. Campbell
ID. Charles Whitney
11. Samuel G. Glenn
12. John Albertson
13. Wallace Beckos
14. John Breen
15. Johnson Canfield
16. ]\Iiles H. Corbett
17. Ed. D. Covert
18. Palmer Cunningham
19. William W. Darling
20. Jacob Dreiblebis
21. Benjamin F. Going
22. Wallace Goodwin
23. Perry A. Himebaugh
24. Cyprian Hunter
25. Harvey Johnson
26. Isaac S. Lawrence
27. Harvey Lamb
28. James W. Lightfoot
29. William Merriman
30. Francis Morse
31. James Martin
32 William R. Marvin
33. Samuel N. McBride
34. Oscar J. Morehouse
35. Samuel Nelson
36. Samuel J. Nelson
37. Robert D. Nelson
38. Mervin Nelson
39. Matthew D. Nelson
40. John Redman
41. John P. Rearick
42. Matthew H. Rankin
43. Francis M. Rynerson
44. Samuel Richardson
45. Abner Stofer
46. Jeremiah Spencer
47. Jacob Smith
MEMBERS COMPANY H DISCHARGED FOR DISABILITY.
I. Lieutenant Franklin
Amos
3. Lieutenant James G.
Dawson
3. George A. Jones
5. Oliver Ackerman
6. William Bamhill
7. Leroy H. Bumight
8. William Dawson
9. George C. Foster
11. Chauncey C. Pearly
12. William Nelson
13. Matthias Watson
14. William Whittemore
4. W^illiam F. Sutherland 10. William P. Gardner
Transferred : Samuel J. Covert, John B. Gerrett.
Captured, John Clark.
BATTLES TN WHICH COMPANY H WAS ENGAGED.
1. Chickasaw Bayou
2. Arkansas Post
3. Thomas Plantation
4. Black Bayou
5. Fourteen-mile Creek
6. Jackson. Mississippi
7. Rear and Siege of Vicksburg
8. Jackson (second time)
9. Canton
10. Cherokee Station
1 1 . Pine Knob
12. Tuscumbia
13. Cherokee Station (second time)
14. Lookout Mountain
15. Missionary Ridge
16. Ringgold
17. Resaca
18. Dallas
IQ. Kenesaw Mountain
20. Atlanta
2T. Jonesboro
22. T.ovejoys Station.
r»3. Columbia
^j. Savannah
-^c. Bentonville
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DAYS UNDER FIRE DURING 1864,
May, 11; June, 22 \ July, 8 August, 26; September, 6; December, 9. Total,
eighty-two days.
Marched during 1864, one thousand and eight miles.
R. M. Marvin,
Late Orderly Sergeant, Company H. Thirty-first Regiment, lotva.
history of the twenty-fourth IOWA volunteer infantry.
The following short sketch of the history of the gallant regiment of the
Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry was prepared by Major Henry O'Conner
in the Grand Army record and guardsmen, on the occasion of the reunion of the
regiment at Marion a few years ago. Company K, which was made up largely
of Wyoming boys, belonged to this regiment and was the only Jones county
company in the regiment. The other companies in this regiment were : Company
A from Jackson and Clinton counties; B and C from Cedar cotmty; D from
Washington, Johnson and Cedar; E from Tama; F. G and H from Linn; I from
Jackson; and K from Jones. The regiment being mustered out at Savannah,
Georgia, July 17, 1865.
The Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry went into the war with a history. It was
christened by the Thirty-fifth boys at Camp Strong, on Muscatine Island, "Kirk-
wood's Temperance Regiment." It came out with a volume added to that history
illuminated on every page by deeds of heroism and dauntless valor that threw away
back in the shade the most daring deeds of Marengo, Waterloo and Inkerman.
A picture of this regiment in a fight would be fame and fortune to the scenic
artist who reproduced Gettysburg, Atlanta and Nashville, but I must content
myself with a feeble attempt to tell the simple story in the plainest prose.
The regiment was mustered into the service of the United States at Camp
Strong, on Muscatine Island, in September, 1862. The field officers had already
been appointed and commissioned by Governor Kirkwood. The Rev. Eben C.
Byam, of Linn county, a distinguished minister of the Methodist church, was
commissioned colonel; John Q. Wilds, one of the grandest of men ambng the
Twenty- fourth, exceptionally brave, lieutenant colonel, and Ed. Wright, of
"Old Cedar/' major. Charley Byam, then a boy, was adjutant, and his brother
Will, a grand old man, with the frosts of twelve winters on his head, commis-
sioned himself as "drummer boy," and made his little snare drum talk to the
tunes of "John Brown's Body," and Moore's "Come, Ye Disconsolate." Three
of its captains, I know, four, I believe — were Methodist preachers — Dimmitt,
Vinson, Carbee and Casebeer.
On the 19th of October, 1862, the regiment left Camp Strong under march-
ing orders for St. Louis, and on their arrival at the latter city were met with
similar orders to proceed at once to Helena. Here they remained during the
winter, drilling, and getting a "good ready," varying the monotony of camp life
with occasional scoutings and short expeditions. Here the Twenty-fourth spent
the "winter of its discontent," with rain, mud, drill, dress parade, preaching,
singing, grumbling "for the field," and here, too, under the stem rules of military
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necessity, they lost their character and baptismal name of Kirkwood's temper-
ance regiment.
Their longing for the field was soon gratified. Early in the spring the regi-
ment was attached to the Thirteenth army corps, in Grant's grand army of
Vicksburg, and from the middle of April, when the battle began at Millikin's
Bend, to the 22d of May, under the walls of Southern Gibralter, it may be said
without figure of speech, that the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry saw nothing but
fighting. They, like other regiments, had lost heavily by sickness duriiig their
stay at Helena. Fifty of their number slept in southern graves, around that
terrible Arkansas camp. But the regiment was still ready and burning for the
fray. They missed the river at Hard Times, and watched with soldierly impa-
tience from the old transport boat on the river their comrades storming and tak-
ing Port Gibson. They landed and at last reached the first real field of their
glory, far famed Champion Hills. On the i6th of May, 1863, in this terrible bat-
tle, the Twenty- fourth regiment was in the fore front. They painted the field red
with their blood and covered themselves with imperishable glory. Major Ed.
Wright, throwing away the last shred of his Cedar county Quaker garb, led the
boys into the very jaws of death. At one moment the Twenty- fourth charged
alone a rebel battery of five guns under a rain of grape and cannister. They
rushed on with a wild shout, trampled down the gunners, and took the battery
and went far beyond it, driving the brave confederate army before them in the
wildest confusion. But how dearly was their glory purchased. Major Wright
was severely wounded. Captains Johnson and Carbee and Lieutenant Lawrence
were killed. I knew them all well. Forty-three officers and men fell dead on the
field, forty more were borne from it with mortal wounds to early graves. Out
of four hundred and seventeen that entered the fight, one hundred were killed,
wounded and captured. Not a name was returned as missing. Such was the
record of the Methodist regiment made on the glorious field of Champion Hilk.
It took its full part in every battle around Vicksburg, after, up to, and includ-
ing the 23d of May, under the walls. When Vicksburg fell, the regiment was
sent to General Banks, and skeleton that it now was, it fought its way to the
front all through the Red River campaign. At the disastrous battle of Sabine
Cross Roads, a handful of the Twenty-fourth 'fought like tigers and shared
the defeat, but not the disgrace of that badly managed field. At Alexandria,
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilds rejoined the regiment with some recruits from Iowa,
where he had been on recruiting service.
On the 22d of July it started by river, gulf and ocean for Alexandria, Va.,
and thence going to Harper's Ferry, became part of Sheridan's army of the Shen-
andoah valley. At Winchester and Cedar Creek the Twenty-fourth, side by side
with the Twenty-second Iowa, responded to Sheridan's call of "What's the mat-
ter boys ; face the other way and follow me," and again got in their work. Three
lieutenants, Camp (adjutant) Captain Gould and Lieutenant Dillman were killed.
It lost an officer and seven men, only three of whom were captured. At
Fisher's hill on the 24th of July it was again at the front, and on that bloody
field nearly one hundred of its officers and men were killed and wounded, and
here one of the truest and bravest of soldiers. Colonel Wilds, was killed, leaving
his life blood on the revolutionary soil of grand old Virginia. This was the
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last fight for the Twenty-fourth. It soon after joined Sherman's grand army
on its return march through the Carolinas.
After literally fighting its way all round the United States the regiment came
home to receive more kisses than the tears that were shed at its going away four
years before. Every woman and girl in three counties that could get into line
received it with a "present arms." If there was a bigger or braver r^ment
in the whole union arm of one million, five himdred thousand than the Twenty-
fourth Iowa Infantry, I have yet to read its story. It illustrated and demon-
strated two facts, namely : that in the great communion of the Methodist church
a traitor could find no shelter, nor in its representative r^ment could a coward
find rest. Colonel Wright, with a well earned brigadier's star on his shoulder;
Qark, whose modesty was only outdone by his daimtless bravery, as major
commanding, are both still honored citizens in Iowa. Colonel Byam died two
years ago near his old home in the state of New York, a brave soldier, bom
gentleman, and as true a friend as man ever had. Charlie, the first adjutant, is in
California, and Will, the drummer boy, is among Sioux City's best citizens, loved
and respected by every one that knows him, without r^;ard to age, sex or previ-
ous condition of servitude.
VOLUNTEER ROSTER.
Taken Principally from Adjutant General's Reports,
Abbreviations.
Adjt Adjutant inf infantry
Art Artillery I. V. I Iowa Volimteer Infantry
Bat Battle or Battalion kid killed
Col Colonel Lieut Lieutenant
Capt Captain Maj Major
Corp Corporal m. o mustered out
Comsy Commissary prmtd promoted
com commissioned prisr prisoner
cav cavalry Regt Regiment
captd captured re-e re-enlisted
disab ... disabled resd resigned
disd discharged Sergt Sergeant
e enlisted trans transferred
excd exchanged vet veteran
hon. disd honorably discharged V. R. C Veteran Reserve Corps
inv invalid wd wounded
NINTH INFANTRY.
(Note. — This regiment was mustered out at Louisville, Ky,, July 25, 1865.)
Maj. Don A. Carpenter, com. capt. Co. B Sept. 2, 1861, prmtd maj. July i,
1862, died at Rome, Iowa, Jan. 8, 1864.
First Lieut. John H. Green, e. as sergt. Aug. 3, 1861, prmtd. ist lieut. Aug.
8, 1863, . ' .
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Company A
Grinrod, Joshua, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Groat, Thomas, e. Aug. 14, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Norton, A. M., e. Aug. 3, 1861, died Sept. 15, 1863.
Miller, Peter, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Norton, F. P., e. Aug. 3, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge and died April 3, 1862.
Company B
Capt. John W. Niles, e. as sergt. Aug. 12, 1861, prmtd. ist lieut. May 23,
1863, prmtd. capt. Jan. 16, 1865.
First Lieut. Walter James, e. as corp. Aug. 12, 1861, prmtd, ist lieut. Jan.
16, 1865.
First Lieut, Jacob Jones, com. 2d lieut. Sept. 2, 1861, prmtd, ist lieut. Aug.
I, 1861.
First Lieut. Morgan Bumgardner, e. Aug. 12, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge and
Vicksburg, disd. Nov. 30, 1863, wds.
Sergt. Thos. W. Blizzard, e. Aug. 12, 1861, kid. at Vicksburg.
Sergt. Wm. Jennings, e. Aug. 12, 1861, prmtd. 2d lieut. Aug. i, 1862.
Sergt. Wm. T. Peet, e. Aug. 17, 1861, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Sergt. E. H. Handy, e. Aug. 12, 1861, disd. July 29, 1862.
Sergt. C. H. Lane, e. Aug. 12, 1861.
Corp. Lewis P. Tourtelott, e. Aug. 12, 1861, died at St. Louis.
Corp. John M. Mason, e. Aug. 12, 1861.
Corp. Owen Farley, e. Aug. 12, 1861.
Corp. Isaac Walker, e. Aug. 12, 1861, kid. at Vicksburg.
Corp. Wm. H. Glick, e. Aug. 12, 186 1, wd. at Missionary Ridge.
Corp. Jas. M. Warner, e. Aug. 12, 1861.
Corp. Jonathan Luther, e. Aug. 12, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg, captd. at Clays-
ville, Ala., died at Andersonville.
Corp. Geo. H. Bowers, e. Aug. 12, 1861, kid. at Vicksburg.
Corp. Henry Robinson, e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, kid. at Kenesaw
Mt.
Musician Benj. F. Harrison, e. Aug. 12, 1861, died at Forsythe, Mo.
Musician Theo. L. Bunce, e. Aug. 12, 1861, died at St. Louis.
Wagoner Joseph Soults, e. Aug. 30, 1861, disd. Sept. 9, 1863, disab.
Wagoner Hannibal Freeman, e. Nov. 25, 1861, disd. April 8, 1862.
Arnold, Riley, e. Sept. 26, 1862.
Ailer, Geo. F., e. Aug. 12, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg.
Bugh, Alex., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Brown, Jas. J., e. Aug. 12, 1861, disd. Dec. 11, 1862.
Barker, Usal, e. Aug. 12, 1861.
Blakely, Nelson D., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, wd. at Jonesboro, Ga.
Brickley, Jas. T., c. Aug. 12, 1861, disd. Oct. 9, 1862, disab.
Baldwin, M. O.. e. Aug. 17, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg.
Beaman, Daniel, e. Nov. 25, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg, died at Nashville.
Cornwell, John L.. e. Sept. 18, 1861. died at St. Louis.
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Cleveland, R. J., e. Oct. 9, 1862, disd. March 21, 1863.
Crook, Wm., e. Aug. 25, 1861.
Crow, A. B., e. Sept. 10, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg.
Colby, Chas., e. Sept. 25, 1861, disd. Dec. 31, 1861.
Dunham, Wallace, e. Aug. 23, 1861.
Easterly, Lawrence, e. Aug. 12, 1861, died Jan. 25, 1862.
Ensign, Devolso, e. Aug. 23, 1861, died April 12, 1862.
Finch, E. D., e. Aug. 12, 1861, disd. March 2, 1862, disab.
Freeman, H., e. Nov. 25, 1861.
Finch, Irwin, e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Fry, Enoch, e. Sept. 12, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Gault, Moses, e. Aug. 12, 1861, died at Young's Point, La.
Graham, Wm. J., e. Aug. 12, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg and Ringgold, Ga., vet.
Jan. I, 1864, prmtd. sergt.
Green, Jasper, e. Sept. 24, 1861, disd. April 21, 1863, disab.
Hall, Andrew H., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, prmtd. corp.
Irwin, Isaac, e. Aug. 12, 1861.
Hitchcock, Thos. X., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, captd. Dallas, Ga.
Johnson, Geo. L., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Kerr, S. P., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Long, Joel, e. Aug. 12, 1861, died at Nashville.
Metcalf, Arthur, e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, wd. Kenesaw Mountain,
disd. Dec. 28, 1864, wds.
McNellan, James, e. Aug. 12, 1861, disd. March 11, 1863, disab.
McGuegan, Thomas, e. Aug. 12, 1861, disd. Aug. 27, 1862.
Merrett. H. X., e. Aug. 12, 1861, disd. March 11, 1862, disab.
McCarty, Chas.. e. Aug. 23, 1861, disd. Dec. 11, 1862, disab.
Matteson, D. M., e. Aug. 29, 1862, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
McGowan, C, e. Aug. 12, t86i.
Osbom, J. v., e. Aug. 12, 1861, kid. Pea Ridge, Ark.
Roberts, Lyman A., e. Aug. 29, 1862, disd. July 2, 1865, disab.
Rummel, D. E., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Robinson, Sam'l, e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Robinson, Sam'l O., e. Dec. 19, 1861, disd. Dec. 16, 1863, disab.
Rich, Nelson, e. Sept. 10, 1861.
Robinson, J., e. Dec. 20, 1861.
Stall, S. H., e. Aug. 12, 1861, wd. Vicksburg, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Stewart. Joshua, e. Aug. 12. 1861, disd. Oct. 13, 1862, disab.
Stewart, Chas., e. Aug. 12, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg, vet. Jan. i, 1864, captd.
at Dallas, Ga.
Sells, Amos, e. Oct. 9, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, captd. at Dallas, Ga.
Stillman, Jas. R., e. Aug. 23, 1862, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Sherman, Benedict, e. Sept. 24, 1861, disd. Jan. 18, 1862, disab.
Seely. Norman, e. Sept. 23, 1861, captd., died at Andersonville.
Torrance. Adam C, e. Aug. 25, 1861.
\^olle, John, vet. Jan. i. 1864.
Vaughn, Sam'l J., e. March 18, 1864. wd. Dallas, Ga.
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Welch, Jas. M., e. Aug. 12, 1861, wd. at Cherokee, Ala., disd. Sept. 22, 1864.
Walter, Jas., vet. Jan. i, 1864, prmtd. sergt.
Weaver, Francis, e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Weeks, S. M., vet. Jan. i, 1864. died at Rome, Ga.
Winn, W. B., e. Aug. 23, 1861, disd. Dec. 8, 1862, disab.
Wells, E. v., e. Aug. 30, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Warner, Jas. M., e. Aug. 12, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Company D
Capt. David Harper, com. Sept. 7, 1861, resd. Feb. 14, 1863.
Capt. Francis C. McKean, e. as ist sergt. Aug. 16, i86i, prmtd. 2d lieut.
July 9, 1862, prmtd. capt. Feb. 15, 1863, "^- ^' ^^c. 31, 1864.
Capt. Jos. A. Burdick, e. as corp. Aug. 16, i86i, prmtd, sergt. maj., wd. Pea
Ridge and Vicksburg, prmtd. capt. Jan. i, 1865.
First Lieut. David F. McGee, com. Sept. 2, 1861, resd. July 8, 1862.
First Lieut. Carso Crane, com. 2d lieut. Sept. 7, 1861, prmtd. ist lieut. July
9, 1862, resd. March 14, 1863.
First Lieut. Jno. Sutherland, e. as sergt. Aug. 19, 1861, wd. Pea Ridge, prmtd.
1st lieut. March 15, 1863, wd. Vicksburg, disd. Jan. 2, 1865.
First Lieut. Zadock Moore, e. as corp. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. Atlanta, prmtd. ist
lieut. April 4, 1865.
Second Lieut. Ezra Nuckolls, e. as corp. Aug. 16, 1861, prmtd. 2d. lieut.
March 15, 1863, m. o. Oct. 21, 1864.
First Lieut. Fred D. Gilbert, e. Aug. 29, 1861, kid. at Vicksburg.
Sergt. Alfred C. Hines, e. Aug. 16, 1861, kid. at Pea Ridge.
Sergt. Thomas Sweesey, e. Aug. 16, 1861, died March 24, 1862, of wds.
received at Pea Ridge.
Sergt. Wm. C. Glenn, e. Aug. 16, i86i, wd. at Pea Ridge, died Aug. 2, 1862.
Corp. Wm. L. Murphy, e. Aug. 16, 1861, died March 10, 1862.
Corp. John A. Dreibelbis, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, died at Helena,
Ark.
Corp. Wm. Hunter, e. Aug. 16, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, died at Canton.
Corp. A. J. Carter, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea' Ridge and died April 25,
1862.
Corp. Wm. McVay, e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. April 13, 1862.
Corp. Thos. Scott, e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. April, 1862, disab.
Corp. Isaac Miller, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge.
Corp. Isaac White, e. Aug. 16, 1862, disd. July 3, 1862.
Button, Wm., e. Feb. 29, 1864.
Breen, Michael, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Byers, Jacob L., e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Vicksburg.
Butcher, Eli, e. Sept. 2, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Beatty, Alex., e. Sept. 19, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, disd. Aug. 23, 1862.
Conklin, Jas. W., e. Feb. 29, 1864.
Cook, David F., e. Aug. i6, 1861, died at Young's Pt., La.
Crane, W. S., e. Feb. 25, 1864.
Clark. Wm.. e. .\ug. 16. 1861. died April 16. 1862.
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CaUahan, J. O., e. Feb. 26, 1864.
Cassaday, Jackson, e. Aug. 16, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Cassaday, James, e. Aug. 30, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, captd. Claysville, Mo.
Charles, Isaac N., e. Aug. 16, i86i,'wd. at Pea Ridge, disd. March 21, 1863.
Cross, Henry, e. Sept. 9, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, disd. Sept. 24, 1861.
Dean, Wm. H., e. March 21, 1864, drowned at Marietta, Ga.
Dubois E., e. Aug. 26, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Dixon, Wm. H., e. Aug. 26, 1861, w^d. at Vicksburg, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Dockstader, Chas., e. Aug. 19, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, captd. at Claysville.
Dunake, Cyrus, e. Aug. 29, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Deffendorffer, Jas., e. Aug. 16, 1861, trans, to V. R. C.
Dixon, Thomas C, e. Aug. 26, 1861, died April 14, 1862.
Espy, R. J., e. Feb. 22, 1864, wd. at Atlanta.
Ewing, Milligan, e. Aug. 16, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Fuller, Wm., e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, disd. Aug. 23, 1862.
Fillson, Robt. F., e. Feb. 25, 1864, died Aug. 13, 1864.
Fuller, Chas., e. Sept. 23, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, disd. June 18, 1862.
Gilbert, Amos D., e. Aug. 16, 1861, captd. at Claysville.
Gridley, Chas., e. Aug. 19, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Green, Jos. E., e. Aug. 26, 1861, died NoV. 28, 1861.
Howard, George, e. Nov. 20, 1861, died March 10, 1862.
Hogeboom, Wm., e. Aug. 16, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Hutton, Philander, e. Feb. 26, 1864.
Holman, S. F., e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. Dec. 17, 1862.
Himebaugh, George L., e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. July 3, 1863, disab.
Kohoe, Edw., e. Aug. 16, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, kid. in Chicago, III
Karst, George, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. Pea Ridge, disd. Aug. 28, 1862.
Lowbower, John C, e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. July 27, 1863, disab.
Magee, F. A., e. Feb. 22, 1864.
Miller, James, e. Sept. 3, 1864, wd. Vicksburg, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Magee, John C. e. Feb. 22, 1864.
Moore, John, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, vet. Jan. i, 1864, disd.
June 27, 1865.
Moore, Zadock, e. Aug. 16, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Mersellus, Charles, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, died at Milliken's
Bend.
Nichols, J. C, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. Vicksburg, vet. Jan. 2, 1864.
Nichols, O. D., e. Sept. 19, 1861, disd. May 29, 1862, disab.
Overly, Jas. F., e. Aug. 16, 1861, died Jan. 31, 1862.
Overly, Henry, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. Pea Ridge, died April 9, 1862.
Palmer, Leroy, e. Aug. 19, 1861, captd. at Claysville, died at Andersonville.
Phillips, Alexander, e. Aug. 23, 1861, disd. Jan. 11, 1862, disab.
Phelps, John, e. Oct. 15, 1861, died April 9, 1862.
Remington, Newman, e. Aug. 19, 1861, vet. Jan. 23, 1864.
Remington, E., e. Feb. 29, 1864.
Ridings, James, e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. Sept. 20, 1862.
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Ripley, George, e. Aug. i6, 1861, trans, to V. R. C.
Ross, F., e. Aug. 16, 1861, vet. Jan. 23, 1864.
Sutherland, A., e. Feb. 25, 1864.
Schuster, A. E., e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. Dec. 29, 1863, disab.
Stewart, B., e. March 10, 1864.
Sutherland, D., e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. Pea Ridge, died March 15, 1862.
Sutherland, M., e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. at Pea Ridge, disd. Oct. 2, 1862.
South, F. M., e. Aug. 19, 1861.
Smith, Geo. W., e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. Aug. 22, 1862, disab.
Sanders, M., e. Aug. 30, 1861. wd. Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., disd. April 22,
1862.
Standish, Wm. H., e. Aug. 26, 1861, died Feb. 25, 1862.
ShuU, J. B., e. Nov. 23, 1861, kid. at Pea Ridge.
Stowell, G. R. C, e. Sept. 4, 1861, disd.
Stowell, Joseph, e. Sept. 4, 1861, vet. Jan. 23, 1864.
Smith, Jas. H., e. Sept. 12, 1861, died at St. Louis.
Tompkins, A. S., e. Aug. 26, 1861, captd. at Pea Ridge.
Vansant, L. J., e. Aug. 16, 1861, died Jan. i, 1862.
Van Volkinburgh, V., e. Sept. 12, 1861.
Wright, Jas. C, e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. Pea Ridge, disd. Sept. 24, 1864.
Waldron, James, e. Aug. 16, 1861, disd. Jan. 18, 1862, disab.
Winslow, Amos, e. Aug. 16, 1861, died Oct. 12, 1861.
White, Jos. L., e. Aug. 16, 1861, wd. Pea Ridge, died April 22, 1862.
Wood, William, e. Feb. 29, 1864.
White, Isaac, e. Feb. 29, 1864.
Company E
Lenhart, John, e. Feb. 20, 1864.
Company F
Tibbetts, W. F., e. April 23, 1864.
Wilcox. Hiram R.. e. Sept. 8, 1861, died May 5, 1862.
Company G
Blair, Jas., vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Company H
Jacoby, Jas., e. March 14, 1864.
Jacoby. Elias, e. March 14, 1864, died June 5, 1864.
Company Unknozvn
Radden, Thos.. e. Nov. 3, 1864.
Stuart, John A., e. Feb. 29. 1864.
TWELFTH INFANTRY.
(Note — This regiment u^as mustered out at Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 20, 1866,)
Company D
First Lieut. Erastus B. Soper, e. as sergt. Sept. 20, 1861, prmtd. 2d lieut
April 8, 1862, prmtd, 1st lieut. March 24, 1863, accidentally wd. at Camp Sher-
man, m. o. Dec. i, 1864.
Soper, Roswell K., e. Oct. i, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, vet. Dec. 25, 1863.
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Company F
Sergt. E. S. Winchell, e. Sept. 25, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, disd. Dec. i, 1862.
Halfhill, H. E., e. Sept. 25, 1861, died Jan. 9, 1862.
Hunter, Geo., e. Oct. 28, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, vet. Dec. 25, 1863.
Halfhill, J., e. Sept. 25, 1861. disd, April 4, 1862.
Ralston, Nelson, e. Feb. 15, 1864.
Company K
Sergt. Stephen P. Collins, e. Sept. 10, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, vet. Dec. 25,
1863.
Pay, Wm. S., e. Sept. 19, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, vet. Dec. 25, 1863.
Church, P., e. Nov. 18, 1861, vet. Dec. 25, 1863.
Sover, Thomas, e. Sept. 6, 1861, died at Montgomery, Ala.
Dillon, Michael, e. Nov. 20, 1861, vet. Dec. 25, 1863.
Whittemore, H., e. Nov. 23, 1861, disd. April 18, 1863.
Dillon, Jas., vet. Dec. 25, 1863.
FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.
(Note — This regiment, except veterans and recruits, were mustered out at
Davenport, N^o7'. 16, 1864. The veterans and recruits were consolidated into
two companies, called Residuary Battery No. 14, which was mustered out May
I3r 1863.)
Col. VVm. T. Shaw, com. Oct. 24, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, returned Nov. 18,
1862. disd. Nov. 16, 1864.
Asst. Surg. Shadrack Hoskins, e. as hospital steward, prmtd. asst. surg,
April 9, 1863.
Q. M. Clinton C. Buell, com. Nov. 6, 1861, m. o. Nov. 25, 1864.
Chaplain Samuel A. Benton, com. Nov. 22, 1861, resd. Jan. 30, 1862.
Q. M. Sergt. Orrin L. Walker, e. Oct. 16, 1861, disd.
Company B
Wagoner David W. Shoemaker, e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Cairo, 111.
Bisby, James, e. Oct. 18, 1862, wd., disd. March 27, 1863.
Graves, Cyrus B., e. Oct. 12, 1862, died at Columbus, Ky.
Boyle, James, e. Dec. 17, 1862.
Harvey, Chas. T., e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Holden, John W., e. Nov. 13, 1863.
Minard, Chas. W., e. Dec. 17, 1862.
Willard, Curtis A., e. Nov. 15, 1862.
Company C
Capt. Geo. H. Wolfe, com. Oct. 25, 1861.
.Second Lieut. Anthony Courtright, com. Oct. 25, 1861.
(NoTE.^-5rr Forty- first Infantry, where the originally enlisted men were
transferred September, 1862.)
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Company H
Capt. Leroy A. Crane, com. 2d lieut. Nov. 6, 1861, missing bat. Shiloh, com.
1st lieut. Jan. 25, 1863, prmtd. capt. March 5, 1863.
First Lieut. Orville Burke, e, as ist sergt. Oct. 12, 1861, captd. Shiloh, prmtd.
2d lieut. Feb. 2, 1863, prnitd. ist lieut. March 5, 1863, capt. Co. B, Residuary
Bat. 14th Inf.
Second Lieut. Jos. B. Gilbert, prmtd. 2d lieut. April 8, 1863.
Sergt. J. W. Deleplane, e. Oct. 24, 1861, captd. Shiloh, disd. Sept. 2, 1862.
Sergt. Jason Hubbard, e. Oct. 12, 1861, captd. Shiloh, disd. March 25, 1863.
Sergt. Perry L. Smith, e. Oct. 12, 1861.
Corp. Jas. A. Palmer, e. Oct. 19, 1861, captd. Shiloh.
Corp. Jno. L. Underwood, e. Oct. 16, 1861, captd. Shiloh, disd.
Corp. Chas. W. Hadley, e. Oct. 12, i86i,- captd. Shiloh, disd. March 25, 1863.
Corp. Sam'l E. Peck, e. Oct. 16, '61, captd. Shiloh, disd. Jan. 9, 1863.
Corp. Carr Hall, e. Oct. 12, 1861, disd. March 24, 1862.
Corp. Orrin L. Walker, e. Oct. 16, 1861.
Corp. Jas. E. Bonstel, e. Oct. 16, 1861, captd. Shiloh.
Musician Jas. H. Clark, e. Oct. 16, 1861, disd. July 20, 1862, disab.
Wagoner, Jos. Button, e. Oct. 5, 1861.
Bender, Joshua, e. Oct. 16, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Bradfield, E. W., e. Oct. 16, 1861, disd. June 17, 1862, disab.
Brownell, O. D., e. Oct. 16, 1861, disd. March 4, 1862.
Chapman, C, e. Dec. 8, 1861, disd. Nov. 27, 1862.
Conklin, Jno. H., e. Oct. 20, 1861, captd. Shiloh, disd. March 28, 1863.
Cline, Chas., e. Dec. 31, 1861, wd. Shiloh, disd. April 18, 1862.
Qothier, L, C, e. Nov. 3, 1862, wd. Yellow Bayou, La.
Condit, A. P., e. Oct. 12, 1861, wd. at Fort Donelson, captd. Shiloh, disd. Dec.
6, 1862.
Qothier, Thurlow, e. Nov. i, 1861, wd. Ft. Donelson, disd. July 20, 1862, disab.
Duncan, Jas.. e. Jan. i, 1862, captd. Shiloh, disd. Feb. 5, 1863.
Dott. Robt., e. Oct. 12, 1861.
Darling, F. M., e. Nov. 9, 1861, disd. June 17, 1862.
Dunkle, Jno. P., e. Oct. 30, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Fisher, Frank, e. Oct. 12, 1861.
Gard, B. M., e. Oct. 20, 1861, died May 15. 1862.
Groat, Peter, e. Oct. 12, 1861, wd. Corinth and Yellow Bayou, died Jefferson
Barracks, Mo.
Gowring, Benj. F., e. Oct. 12, 1861, disd. April 18, 1862, disab.
Goes, Elias, e. Oct. 12, 1861, disd. Feb. 4, 1862.
Garlick. Thos. S., e. Oct. 16, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Howard, Martin, e. Feb. 2, 1864, captd. at Holly Springs, Miss.
Hecocks, Daniel; e. Oct. 12, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, disd. Jan. 2, 1863.
Haymaker, F., e. Oct. 12, 1861, died at Benton Barracks, Mo.
Hartman, P. J., e. Aug. 12, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Harvey. Edw. e. Oct. 12, 1861.
Harvey, William, e. Oct. 12, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, disd. Jan. 12, 1863.
Heath, William, e. Jan. 4, 1862, captd. at Shiloh, disd. Nov. 4, 1862.
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Hammonds, James C, e. Oct. 19, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Matthews, H. J., e. Sept. 26, 1861.
McDonald, William, e. Oct. 16, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Muzzy, Isaac M., e. Oct. 16, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, disd. Sept. 25, 1862.
Mendon, George e. Oct. 5, 1861.
Moulthrop, Leroy, e. Oct. 5, 1861, died July 12, 1862.
McKinley, Wm. H., e. Oct. 12, 1861.
Neally, Matthew, e. Oct. 21, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, disd. Feb. 6, 1862.
Northrop, James, e. Oct. 25, 1861, wd. at Shiloh, disd. July 20, 1862, disab.
Pierce, E. P., e. Oct. 20, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, disd. March 21, 1863.
Patterson, David, e. Nov. 14, 1861, captd. at Shiloh, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Preston, Geo. N., e. Oct. 16, 1861, disd. June 7, 1862.
Robinson, William, e. Jan. 4, 1862, disd. July 20, 1862.
Scoles, R. B., e. Oct. 19, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Stanton, C. H., e. Sept. 24, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Scott, F. W., e. Oct. 12, 1861, wd. Shiloh, disd. Oct. i, 1862.
Shike, John, e. Oct. 12, 1861, disd. April 25, 1862, disab.
Tibbitts, A. W., e. Nov. 9, 1861, wd. at Shiloh.
Thomas, Elihu, e. Oct. 16, 1861, captd, at Shiloh.
Van Valtenburg, R., e. Oct. 24, 1861, wd. at Pleasant Hill, La.
Widel, John F., e. Oct. 16, 1861, died at Corinth.
Company Unknown
Holden, John W.
RESIDUARY BATTERY FOURTEENTH INFANTRY.
Company B
Capt. Orville Burke, com. Nov. 19, 1864.
Second Lieut. Perry L. Smith, com. Nov. 19, 1864, disd. June 27, 1865.
Second Lieut. Jas. C. Hammonds, com. June 28, 1865.
Sergt. John P. Dunkin, e. Dec. i, 1863.
Sergt. Joshua Bender, e. Dec. i, 1863.
Corp. Thos. S. Garlick, e. Dec. i, 1863.
Musician, D. L. Jones, e. Dec. i, 1863.
McCalmant, Elisha, e Aug. i, 1864.
Seely, M. M., e. Dec. 9, '63, disd. July 20, '65.
Thomas, Elihu, e. Dec. i, 1863.
SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY.
(Note. — This regiment was mustered out at Louisinlle, Ky., July 25, 1865.)
Adjt. Geo. A. Jones, e. as sergt. maj. prmtd. adjt. July 16, 1865.
Company H
Marsh, Emery, vet. Feb. 29, 1864.
Pike, Jas. L., vet. March 5, 1864.
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Company K
Corp. William H. Johnson, e. March 24, 1862, died May 3, 1862.
Corp. Ira C. Dodge, e. March 28, 1862, wd. at Shiloh, disd. Oct. 31, 1862.
Applegate, Richard, e. March 27. 1862,
Barnes, John, e. March 22, 1862.
Clymer, Thos., e. March 21, 1862.
Clothier, Theo., e. March 2, 1862.
Cronkwhite, Buel, e. March 7. 1862.
Eldridge, Wm. W., e. March i, 1862.
Horton, Ellis W., e. March 22, 1862, disd. Dec. 2, 1862, disab.
Killgore, Herbert, e. March 20, 1862.
Locke, A. L., e. March 31, 1S62.
Lenningan, M., e. Feb. 28, 1862.
Marsh, Emory, e. Feb. 27, 1862.
McClaine, John T., e. March 22, 1862, died Sept. i, 1862.
Miller, Alfred S., e. March 27, 1862, disd. Sept. 13, 1862.
McQuillon, B., e. March 18, 1862, disd. Nov. 29, 1862.
Pike, Jas. L.. e. March i, 1862, captd. at Tilton, Ga.
Rolston, Jacob, e. March 20, 1862, wd. at Jackson, Miss., kid. at Missionary
Ridge.
Riley. Clement, e. March 8, 1862.
Starks, John, e. March 20. 1862.
Tracy, Timothy, e. March 26. 1862, wd. at Jackson, Miss.
White, Samuel, e. March 14, 1862.
White, Chas., e. March 28, 1862.
TWENTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
(Note. — This regiment was mustered out at Savannah, Ga,, July if, 1863,)
Chaplain George R. Carroll, com. Feb. 3, 1864, resd. Nov. 13, 1864.
Company B
Second Lieut. W. W. Edgington, e. as sergt. Aug. 2, 1862, prmtd. 2d lieut.
March 21. 1864. wd. at Fisher's Hill.
Steward, F. M., e. Jan. 4, 1864.
Company I
Corp. Wm. Bryan, e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Company K
Capt. James D. Williams, com. Sept. 18, 1862, resd. Dec. i, 1863.
Capt. Benj. G. Paul, e. as private Aug. 22, 1862, prmtd. 2d lieut. June 11, 1863,
prmtd. capt. Dec. 2, 1863, kid. near Rosedale Bayou, La.
Capt. Aaron M. Loomis. com. 2d lieut. Sept. 18, 1862, prmtd. ist lieut. June
11, 1863, prmtd. capt. June 18, 1864, wd. at Cedar Creek, Va.
First Lieut. Thos. Green, com. Sept. 18, '62, resd. on account ill health, June
12, '63.
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First Lieut. Royal S. Williams, e. as sergt. Aug. 8, 1862, prmtd. 2d lieut June
15, 1864, prmtd. ist lieut. June 18, 1864, wd. at Cedar Creek, Va.
Second Lieut. James L. Hall, e. as private Aug. 9, 1862, prmtd. 2d lieut. June
18, 1864, wd. at Cedar Creek, Va.
Second Lieut. Jeremiah Woodyard, e. as corp. Aug. 15, 1862, prmtd. 2d lieut
Jan. I, 1865.
Sergt. David Moore, e. Aug. ii, 1862.
Sergt. E. M. Hamilton, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Milliken's Bend.
Sergt. J. E. Fisher, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Keokuk.
Sergt. Chas. A. Melner, e. July 21, 1862, disd. Feb. 10, 1863, disab.
Sergt. Geo. L. Foote, e. Aug. 9, 1862, kid. at Opequan Creek, Va.
Sergt. Famsworth Cobb, e. Aug. 9, 1862, wd. at Cedar Creek, Va., disd. May
2, 1865, wds.
Corp. Marcus Johnson, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Corp. G. Mc Atkinson, e. July 21, 1862, captd. at Sabine Cross Roads, La.
Corp. C. C. Horton, e. July 21, 1862, disd. Feb. 20, 1863, disab.
Corp. Chas. W. Gould, e. Aug. 4, 1862, disd. Feb. 22, 1863, disab.
Corp. Chas. H. Johnson, e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. at Mansfield, La.
Corp. James Sloan, e. July 28, 1862.
Corp. Eli Sawyer, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Nov. 23, 1863.
Corp. Geo. W. James, e. Aug. 15, 1862, wd. Winchester.
Corp. Wm. W. Walters, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Musician Riley Cawkins, July 21, 1862, wd.
Musician, J. G. Smith, e. July 21, 1862.
Allen, Anson, e. Aug. 22, 1862, wd. at Helena, Ark.
Arnold, Hiram, e. July 30, 1862.
Archer, Caleb, e. July 24, 1862, wd. and died at Champion Hills.
Bill, C. C, e. July 21, 1862.
Brainard, James A., e. July 21, 1862.
Bryan, C. M., e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. June 16, 1863, disab.
Bamhill, Samuel, e. Feb. 15, 1864.
Bill, H. G., e. July 21, 1862.
Babcock, Edgar, e. July 26, 1862, disd. Feb. 23, 1865, disab.
Brock, James F., e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Bronson, Jas. W., e. Aug. 21, 1862.
Brock, Robert, e. Aug. 9, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Calkins, Orrin, e. Jan. 5, 1864, died New Orleans.
Countryman, A., e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Helena, Ark.
Crandall, Z. J., e. Feb. 20, 1864, died April 17, 1864.
Craig, David, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Carpenter, Chas. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862, died Oct. 31, 1862.
Cady, Henry, e. Aug. 14, 1862, drowned in Pearl River, near Jackson, Miss.
Crandall, A. G., e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Jan. 30, 1862.
Crandall, M. C, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Crone, Wm., e. July 24, 1862, disd. June 8, 1865, disab.
Crandall, Wm. M., e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Calkins, K. J., e. July 30, 1862.
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Dockstater, H., e. Aug. 22, 1862, disd. March 11, 1863, disab.
Donaldson, T., e. Aug. 19, 1862.
Dubois, L. K., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
EbersoU, Daniel, e. Jan. 4, 1864.
Ellis, Jacob, e. Aug. 5, 1862, died at Helena, Ark.
Ellis, Wm., e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Jan. 7, 1863, disab.
Fairchilds, E. G., e. Aug. 15, 1861, died at St. Louis,
Fuller, Carlos, e. Aug. 9, 1861.
Garrett, Robert, e. Feb. 9, 1864, wd. Winchester, Va. trans, to V. R. C.
Gee, Leonard, e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Gould, Jas. A., e. Feb. 22, 1864, wd. at Cedar Creek, disd. Jan. 11, 1865, wds.
Gee, Isaac, e. Aug. 22, 1862, disd. Jan. 31, 1863, disab.
Gifford, C. M., e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Helena, Ark.
Gilbert, Geo., e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Hayden, Myron, e. Feb. 9, 1864.
Hamilton, A. A., e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Herron, Davis, e. July 31, 1862.
Hanna, Jos. A., e. Aug. 22, 1862, aq)td. at Sabine Cross Roads, La.
Ingraham, C, e. Aug. 15, 1862, wd., trans, to V. R. C.
Johnson, Jeremiah, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Helena.
Johnson, Jas. R., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Jewett, Abel, Aug. 18, 1862, died Dec. 13, 1862.
Kenney, Aaron, e. July 31, 1862, died at New Orleans.
Kimball, John M., e. Aug. i, 1862, disd, Feb. 12, 1863, disab.
Lain, Thomas, e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Lain, Wm. J., e. Aug. 8, 1862, died New Orleans.
Moore, C. D., e. Aug. 5, 1862, died at Helena, Ark.
Moore, Jesse, e. Jan. 5, 1864.
Murry, Martin, e. July 19, 1862.
Mudge, L. C, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Mudge, Aldin, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. April 13, 1863, disab.
Mackrill, S. R., e. Aug. 8, 1862.
McCahnant, Samuel, e. Aug. 22, 1862, died at Opelousas, La.
Milner, H. J., e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Feb. 20, 1863, disab.
Moore, H., e. Aug. 6, 1862, captd. at Cedar Creek.
Moore, S., Jr., e. Aug. 13, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
McDaniel, D. A., e. Aug. 22, 1862, wd. at Winchester, disd. Feb. 24, 1865.
McCormick, James, e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Nichols, L. H., e. Jan. 4, 1864.
Osbom, Geo. E., e. Aug. 8, 1862.
Parks, Jacob F., e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. July 9, 1863, disab.
Paul, B. G. c. Aug. 22, 1862.
Paul, H. F., e. Feb. 24, 1864, captd. Cedar Creek.
Pulsipher, Newel, e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Muscatine.
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Prouty, E. A., e. Aug. 19, 1862, died at Vicksburg.
Powers, Samuel, e. Aug. 22, 1862, wd. at Champion Hills, died at Memphis.
Ruby, Joseph, e. Aug. 14, 1862, captd. at Cedar Credc.
Reynolds, Frank, e. Aug. 21, 1862, disd. Feb. 23, 1863, disab.
Sones, Geo. W., e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Dec. 5, 1864, disab.
Sloan, J. W., e. Aug. 22, 1862, disd. Feb. 20, 1863, disab.
Spencer, James, e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. Jan. 14, 1863, disab.
Sennett, Thomas, e. July 28, 1862.
Sinkey, F,, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Tebo, D. G., e. Aug. 9, 1862, captd. at Sabine Cross Roads, La.
Van Valtenburg, W. H., e. Feb. 22, 1864.
Vasser, E. H., e. Feb. 22, 1864.
Vasser, W. W., e. Feb. 22, 1864, died at Wyoming.
Williams, Charles P., e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Carrion Crow Bayou.
Woodruff, Adam, e. July 30, 1864.
White, William, e. July 21, 1864, captd. at Cedar Creek.
Wilkinson, Robert, e. Dec. 21, 1863.
Williams, Jos. T., e. Feb. 22, 1864.
THIRTY-FIRST INFANTRY.
(Note. — This regiment was mustered out at Louisville, June 2J, 1865.)
Maj. Ezekid Cutler, com. Sept. 16, 1862, resd. March 20, 1863.
Maj. Sewell S. Farwell, com. Oct. 13, 1862, prmtd. maj. May 27, 1865,
Surg. Horace H. Gates, e. as hospt. steward, prmtd. asst. surg. March i, 1864,
prmtd. surg. June 10, 1865.
Asst Surg. Lucius H. French, com. Sept. 16, 1862, resd. June 8, 1864.
Asst. Surg. Elisha F. Taylor, com. June 30, 1863, resd. Feb. 29, 1864.
Adjt. Moore Briggs, e. as com. sergt., prmtd. adjt. April 13, 1864, m. o. May
I5» 1865.
Chaplain Dan'l S. Starr, com. Sept. 26, 1862, resd. March 4, 1863.
Company A
Edgington, J. M., e. Aug. 22, 1862, died Dec. 19, 1862.
Herron, Franklin, e. Dec. 9, 1863.
Company E
Capt. Edwin B. Alderman, com. Oct. 13, 1862, resd. Feb. 13, 1863.
Capt. Geo. D. Hilton, com. 2d lieut. Oct. 13, 1862, prmtd. capt. March 17,
1863.
First Lieut. Edmund T. Mellett, com. Oct. 13, 1862, resd. March 17, 1863.
First Lieut. Richard McDaniel, e. as sergt. Aug. 14, 1862, prmtd. ist lieut.
March 17, 1863.
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Second Lieut. Daniel H. Monroe, e. as sergt. Aug. 14, 1862, prmtd. 2d licuL
March 17, 1863, died Corinth, Miss.
Sergt. Wm. M. Starr, e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Sergt. Jas. H. Cooksey, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Aug. 19, 1863, disab.
Sergt. Geo. R. Seaman, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Aug. 10, 1863.
Sergt. D. W. Cleveland, e. Aug. 11, 1862, died Young's Point, La.
Sergt. J. H. Barker, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Oct. 5, 1864, disab.
Sergt. S. P. Porter, e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Corp. O. P. Olinger, e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Corp. Jno. R. Campbell, e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Corp. M. F. Sipe, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Dec. 24, 1862.
Corp. T. M. Belknap, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Corp. M. M. Wilde, e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Corp. Thos. Buckner, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Sept. 7, 1863, disab.
Corp. R. Spear, e. Aug. 13, 1862, died Dec. 24, 1862.
Musician A. H. House, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. Feb. 23, .
Musician J. W. Benedom, e. Aug. 12, '62.
Wagoner, Jas. W. Durlin, e. Aug. 11, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Amy, O. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Andrews, Ruel, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. March 4, 1863.
Baker, P. M., e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Barnard, Jno. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. June 19, 1863, disab.
Brown, Wm. M., e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Brown, S., e. Aug. 14, '62, died at St. Louis.
Campbell, Jno. R., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Chadwick, David, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Cook, Wm., e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. May 20, 1864.
Cook, Amster, e. Aug. 16, 1862, wd. June 27, 1864, and at Kenesaw Moun-
tain, disd. Jan. 26, 1865.
Converse, Jesse, e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Memphis.
Curtis, Wm. J., e. Aug. 13, 1862, died Dec. 14, 1862.
Courttright, J. E., e. Aug. 12, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Crow, John W., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Dickerson, Wm., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Dunning, H., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Dial, Martin L., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Famham, Wm. G., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Frink, Wm., e. Aug. 12, 1862, wd. and died at Vicksburg.
Graham, J. G., e. Oct. 24, 1862.
Gates, Horace H., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Hilton, A. M., e. Aug. 16, 1862, disd. July 12, 1863, disab.
Harrison, Abram, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Jan. 15, 1863.
Harvey, I. E., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Healey, Robt., e. Aug. 13, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
High, Daniel A., e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Young's Point, La,
House, J. G.. e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at St. Louis.
JosHn, Harrison, e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Vicksburg.
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Joslin, Daniel, e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at St. Louis.
Krahl, John, e. Aug. 12, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Kerr, Wm. F., e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to Inv, Corps.
Kerr, Porter, e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Lamb, Cyrus, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Littlefield, Clark, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Memphis.
Luce, Samuel, e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Lyons, C. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Lyons, John W., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Masker, Wm. S., e. Aug. 12, 1862, wd. at Vicksburg, disd. Aug. 9, 1863.
Mattocks, J. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. June 21, 1865, disab.
Mead, Geo. W., e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Merritt, Cornelius, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Monroe, Harvey H., e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Nash, Wm. W., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Helena, Ark.
Neilly, Thomas, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Nikirk, Geo. W., e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Northrop, H., e. Oct. 24, 1862.
O'Donnell, John, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
dinger, Jas. L., e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Orr, Mark, e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. Oct. 8, 1864, disab.
Overacker, Wm., e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. March 3, 1863, disab.
Page, O. F., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Memphis.
Parsons, Chas. A., e. Aug. 12, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Phelphs, Wm. O., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Putnam, A. C, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. April 10, 1863, disab.
Rumple, Elias M., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Rundall, J. G., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Young's Point, La,
Ryder, J. A., e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. at Resaca, died May 6, 1864.
Sage, Nestor, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Memphis.
Sams, Stephen, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Slade, F. H., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Stingly, Jas., e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. 1863, disab.
Snider, A. W., e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Sept. 7, 1863, disab.
Stuttsman, John, e. Aug. 13, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Tallman, Jas. H., e. Aug. 16, 1862.
Thoma, O. E., e. Aug. 11, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Thomas, Edmund, e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Thomas, Bennett, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died March 12, 1863.
Thomley, Hiram, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Tice, Lewis, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Feb. i, 1863, disab.
Tice, John, e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. April 18, 1863, disd.
Titus, Jas. W., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Wagoner, David, e. Aug. 12, 1862, died at Walnut Hills, Miss.
Walton, P. T., e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Warren, E., e. Aug. 13, 1862, died Young's Point, La,
Webb, A. J., e. Aug. 12, 1862, died on steamer Von Phul,
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Wentworth, S., e. Aug. ii, 1862, died at Helena, Ark.
Waterhouse, M., e. Aug. 14, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Company G
Capt. Jeremiah C. Austin, com. Oct. 13, 1862, resd. Jan. 30, 1863.
Capt. Jos. H. Evans, e. as private, ccmi. capt. March 31, 1863.
First Lieut. Edward H. Handy, com. Oct. 13, 1862, resd. Aug. 13, 1863.
Second Lieut. Simon N. Landon, e. as sergt. Aug. 8, 1862, prmtd. 2d liettt
Oct. 13, 1862.
Sergt. Orson B. Lowell, e. Aug. 6, 1862, died at Memphis.
Sergt. Lorenzo D. Bates, e. Aug. 6, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Sergt. Jas. Miller, e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Memphis.
Corp. Jas. P. Scoles, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Corp. Valentine Dalbey, e. Aug. 13, 1863, died at Vicksburg.
Corp. Henry Simpson, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died Jan. 5, 1863.
Corp. Moses M. McCree, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Musician J. D. Herrick, e. Aug. 6, 1862.
Wagoner, John Brigham, e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at St. Louis.
Bryan, Jas. e. Aug. 15, 1862, died at Camp Sherman, Miss.
Cronkhite, Wm. e. Aug. 17, 1862.
Conner, Benj. F., e. Dec. 9, 1863, died at Keokuk.
Clymer, Chas., e. Aug. 15, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Carpenter, Henry, e. Aug. 8, 1862, disd. March 24, 1864, disab.
Clothier, Theo., e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Cole, Simeon W., e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Cowles, John S., e. Aug. 23, 1862.
Dewey, E. A., e. Aug. 8, 1862, disd. Sept. 7, 1863, disab.
Deirlein, John, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Memphis.
Emerson, Chas., e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Gilmore, Jas. P., e. Aug. 9, 1862, trans, to V. R. C.
Gilmore, Wm. H., e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Gleck, Nathan, e. Feb. 12, 1864.
Graham, John W., e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Gales, Z., e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. Feb. 2, 1864, disab.
Huston, John R., e. Aug. 12, 1862, died Jan. 28, 1863.
Hitchcock, John, e. Aug. 8, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Haney, John F., e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Hammon, S., e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Hitchcock, Jas., e. Feb. 2, 1864.
Ireland, Benj. F., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Ireland, Silas, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Johnson, J. L., e. Aug. 6, 1862, died at Memphis.
Klise, D. E., e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Long, Hiram, R., e. Aug. 15, 1862, disd. April 3, 1863, disab.
McMullen, John D., e. Aug. 13, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
McMuUen, Bethuel, e. Aug. 9, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Murry, M. J., e. Aug. 9, 1862.
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Miller, Elmer, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Marshall, Thcmias, e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Manning, L. H., e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. Aug. 21, 1863, disab.
Ogg, William, e. Aug. 12, 1862, disd. June 6, 1863, disab.
Ogg, Charles, e. Aug. 13, 1862.
Overbaugh, Joseph, e. Sept. 9, 1862.
Pierce, E. E., e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Sept. 7, 1863, disab.
Reed, Samuel, e. Aug. 8, 1862.
Richstine, D. M., e. Aug. 22, 1862, died on steamer City of Memphis.
Rogers, Chas. E., e. Aug. 18, 1862.
Smith, Burt A., e. Aug. 12, 1862.
Shibley, Oliver, e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Starry, Daniel, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Voorhies, Miles, e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Vrooman, Wm. D., e. Aug. 15, 1862.
Wildey, Geo. E. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Sept. 7, 1863, disab.
Walker, William, e. Aug. 8, 1862, wd. May 18, 1863,
Young, E. A., e. Aug. 7, 1862, died Jan. 22, 1863.
Company H
Capt. Abijah E. White, e. as corp. Aug. 2, 1862, prmtd. capt. June 10, 1865.
First Lieut. Franklin Amos, com., Oct. 13, 1862, wd. at Atlanta, resd. Feb.
2, 1865.
Second Lieut. James G. Dawson, com. Oct. 13, 1862, wd. at Vicksburg, resd,
Jan. II, 1864.
Sergt. F. H. Blodgett, e. Aug. 2, 1862, died at Memphis, March 26, 1863.
Sergt. D. W. Perrine, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Feb. 28, 1863.
Sergt. Samuel Williamson, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died on steamer Forest Queen.
Sergt. Geo. A. Jones, e. Aug. 2, 1862, disd. July 22, 1864, disab.
Sergt. J. C. Qark, e. Aug. 14, 1862, captd. at luka. Miss.
Sergt. Wm. S. Johnson, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Camp Sherman, Miss.
Sergt. Wm. W. Sutherland, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. March 24, 1863, disab.
Sergt. John W. Cook, e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. at Roswell and Atlanta, Ga., died
at Marietta.
Corp. Moore Briggs, e. Aug. 2, 1862, prmtd. adj. May, 1864.
Corp. Edgar G. Himes, e. Aug. 2, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Corp. B. F. Gowing, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Corp. R. M. Marvin, e. Aug. 11, 1862.
Corp. Wm. S. Campbell, e. Aug. 2, 1862, died Jan. 9. 1863.
Corp. Newton Bentley, e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. at Lockout Mountain, died at
Chattanooga.
Corp. Benjamin Batchelder, e. Aug. 5, 1862, died at Memphis.
Musician Charles H. Whitney, e, Aug. 2, 1862, died at St. Louis.
Musician Samuel J. Glenn, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Wagoner S. R. McDaniel, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Ackerman, O. B., e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. June 9, 1863, disab.
Albertson, Charles, e. Aug. 22, 1862, wd. at Aricansas Post.
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Aldrich, Lemuel, e. Feb. 19, 1864.
Albertson, John, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Memphis.
Beckos, Wallace, e. Aug. 2, 1862, wd. at Arkansas Post, died at Memphis.
Barahill, Wm. T., e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Jime 2, 1863.
Burnight, L. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862, disd. May 22, 1863, disab.
Butterfield, Isaac, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Buttolph, E. F., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Black, Wm. J., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Breen, John, e. Aug. 7, 1862, died at St. Louis.
Canfield, Johnson, e. Feb. 23, 1864, died at Chattanooga.
Corbett, Miles H., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died on steamer City of Men:q)his.
Covert, E. D., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Covert, S. J., e. Aug. 9, 1862, trans, to Inv. Corps. •
Carter, Chas. H., e. Aug. 9, 1862.
Cook, G. N., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Cook, I. J., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Cook, Rufus G., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Cross, J. 11. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Cunningham, P., e. July 24, 1862, died at Jackson, Miss.
Darling, A. C, e. Aug. 5, 1862.
Dawson, William, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. March 8, 1864, disab.
Dickerson, Chas., e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. at Arkansas Post and Lookout
Mountain.
Dickerson, Wm., e. Sept. 5, 1864.
Dreibelbis, Jacob, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at St. Louis.
Ennis, Jas. D., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Foster, Geo. C, e. Aug. 14, 1862, disd. Sept. 7, 1863, disab.
Fitch, J. C, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Gerrett, John B., e. Aug. 11, 1862, trans, to Marine Brigade.
Gardner, Wm. P., e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. at Arkansas Post, disd. June 9, 1863.
Goodin, Wallace, e. Aug. 5, 1862, died Jan. 23, 1863.
Haun, Robt. C, e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Himes, F. E., e. Aug. 2, 1862.
Harlow, G. T., e. Aug. 7, 1862.
Hawley, C. W., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Himebaugh, P. H,, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Feb. 12, 1864.
Hunter, Cyprian, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Memphis.
Ingram, John, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Jones, Luman, e. Feb. 17, 1864, wd. at Kenesaw Mountain.
Johnson, H. M., e. Aug. 2, 1862, died at Scotch Grove.
Karst, Geo., e. Feb. 17, 1864.
Kilgore, H. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. May 22, 1863.
Kenney, M. M., e. Aug. 2, 1862.
Kohout, Jos., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Lewis, Alex., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Lawrence, F., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Lawrence, I. S., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Nov. 11, 1863.
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Lamb, Harvey, e. Aug. 2, 1862, wd. at Dallas, Ga., died at Ackworth, Ga.
Lightfoot, Jas. W., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Memphis.
Merriman, Wm., e. Aug. 2, 1862, died at Vicksburg.
Morse, F. M., e. Aug. 5, 1862, kid. Resaca.
Marvin, Wm. R., e. Aug. 2, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Miller, David, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
McBride, Sam'l N., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died at Memphis.
!Moorehouse, O. J., e. Aug. 14, 1862, wd. Lookout Mountain, died Chattanooga.
McFry, Andrew J., e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Nelson, S. J., e. August 9, 1862, died Memphis.
Nelson, Sam'l, e. Aug. 9, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Nelson, Wm., e. Aug. 9, 1862, disd. March 30, 1863.
Nelson, Robt. D., e. Aug. 22, 1862, died St. Louis.
Nelson, Mervin, e. Aug. 22, 1862, died on steamer City of Memphis.
Nelson, M. J., e. Aug. 22, 1862, died Memphis.
Parker, Jas. F., e. Sept. 5, 1864.
Redman, Jno., e. Aug. 5, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Rearick, Jno. P., e. Aug. 6, 1862, died at St. Louis.
Rankin, M. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Aug. 31, 1863.
Rynerson, F. M., e. Aug. 11, 1862, died Memphis.
Richardson. Sam'l, e. Aug. 22, 1862, died Jan. 17, 1863.
Rice, R. W., e. Feb. 18, 1864.
Sweesy, Matthias, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Sutherland, D., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Sutherland, Jno., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Stofer, Abner, e. Aug. 14, 1862, died July 9, 1864.
Shields, Geo. O., e. Feb. 26, 1864, wd. at Resaca.
Spence, J., e. Aug. 14, 1862, died Memphis.
Smith, Jacob, e. Aug. 11, 1862, died at Young's Point, La.
Wolf, M. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Welsh, Oliver, e. Aug. 14, 1862.
Watson, M. A., e. Aug. 22, 1862, disd. Sept. 7, 1863, disab.
Whittemore, Wm., e. Aug. 22, 1862, disd. April 22, 1863.
Whittemore, A. B., e. Aug. 22, 1862.
Whittemore, W. L., enlisted September 5, 1864.
THIRTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY.
(Note — This regiment was mustered out at Davenport, date not given in
Adjutant General's Report,)
Company A
Corp. David Bumgardner, e. Nov. 11, 1862, disd. March 21, 1865, disab.
Cylmer, Chas., e. Nov. 11, 1862, died St. Louis.
Company F
Barnes, Aaron, e. Dec. 29, 1862, prmtd. musician.
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Krokooke, Jos., e. Dec. 26, 1862, disd. Sept. 12, 1864, disab.
Rice, R. B., e. Dec. 19, 1862, died Feb. 4, 1864.
Company I
Second Lieut. Thomas E. Belknap, com. Dec. 15, 1862.
Sergt. Noah Bigley, enlisted September 5, 1862.
Cook, John W. H., e. Sept. 20, 1862, disd. May 7, 1863, disab.
Dodge, Mark, e. Oct. 9, 1862.
Gilford, Jos., e. Sept. 15, 1862.
Hodges, Vincent, e. Oct. i, 1862, disd. May 20, 1864, disab.
Lake, Benj., e. Oct. 23, 1862.
Pate, Henry, e. Sept. 22, 1862, disd. May 8, 1863, disab.
Shafer, S. M., e. Sept. 8, 1862, disd. April 8, 1863, disab.
Shafer, John, e. Oct. 8, 1862.
Secrest, Robert M., e. Sept. 11, 1862, disd. April 25, 1863, disab.
Truax, John, e. Sept. 11, 1862.
Taylor, W. H., e. Nov. i, 1862.
Warren, Levi, e. Oct. 8, 1862, disd. Dec. 11, 1863, disab.
Zigler, Jacob, e. Sept. 23, 1862, disd. Nov. 9, 1864, disab.
Company Unknown,
Chatwin, E., e. Dec. 16, 1862.
FORTY-FIRST INFANTRY.
(Note — This Company was transferred to Seventh Cavalry, April 25, 1863.)
Company C
Capt. Geo. H. Wolfe, com. Oct. 13, 1861.
Second Lieut. Anthony Courtright, com. Oct. 13, 1861.
Sergt. S. G. Cunningham, e. September 28, 1861.
Corp. Samuel S. Wherry, e. September 27, 1861.
Corp. John B. Green, e. September 26, 1861.
Brady, Joseph, e. Sept. 28, 1861.
Clark, Jas., e. Sept. 28, 1861.
Carter, Wm., e. Sept. 28, 1861.
Ferguson, Luther, e. Sept. 26, 1861.
Forbes, Patrick, e. Sept. 26, 1861.
Graham, W., e. Oct. 7, 1861.
Green, John B., e. Sept. 26, 1861.
Hohncs, Samuel B., e. Oct. 28, 1861, died at Fort Randall, D. T.
Klisc, John W., e. Sept. 28, 1861.
Langon, Wm. P., e. Sept. 26, 1861.
Ratean, James, e. Sept. 28, 1861.
Reamer, Ralph, e. Oct. i, 1861.
Robinson, D., e. Oct. i, 1861.
SeQen, Joseph F., e. Oct. 2, 1861.
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Smith, H. W., e. Sept. 27, 1861.
Swan, Avery, e. Sept. 28, 1861.
Thurston, Wm. H., e. Sept. 26, 1861.
Wherry, M. M., e. Sept. 27, 1861.
Wherry, Samuel S., e. Sept. 27, 1861.
Welch, W. C, e. Sept. 26, 1861.
Yale, Geo. W., e. Sept. 26, 1861.
FORTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
(Note — This regiment was mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 15, 1864.)
Company A
Morey, Edwin S., e. May 3, 1864.
Metcalf, M. H., e. May 6, 1864.
Scroggs, John A., e. May 6, 1864.
Spaulding, J. L., e. May 6, 1864.
Thomas, Jas. R., e. May 14, 1864.
Company C
Capt. Jas. W. McKean, com. June i, 1864, died at Memphis.
Sergt. Samuel E. Hutton, e. April 30, 1864.
Sergt. F. W. Houser, e. April 30, 1864.
Corp. David Inches, e. April 30, 1864.
Barnes, H. J., e. May 7, 1864.
Brady, Freeman, e. April 30, 1864, died at Memphis.
Calkins, F. M., e. April 30, 1864.
Dewey, Chas., e. March 18, 1864.
Foster, R. C, e. March 9, 1864.
Foust, Benj., e. April 37, 1864.
Glenn, R. R., e. April 30, 1864.
Himebaugh, H. H., e. May 14, 1864.
Horton, Erastus B., e. May 9, 1864.
Lovejoy, Owen D., e. May 6, 1864.
McVay, Levi, e. May 9, 1864.
Murphy, Chas. H., e. April 30, 1864.
McKean, C. B., e. April 30, 1864.
Monroe, C. A., e. May i, 1864.
Sutherland, D. W., e. May 3, 1864.
Company F
Bcranek, John, e. May 21, 1861.
FIRST CAVALRY.
(Note — This regiment was mustered out at Austin, Tex,, Feb. 15, 1866,)
Company B
Bugler Edmund T. Hopkins, e. July 18, 1861.
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Crane, O. B., e. Jan. 5, 1864.
Penniman, C. G., e. July 18, 1861.
Stanley. E. G., e. July 18, 1861.
Smith, Howard E., e. July 18, 1861.
Company G
Corp. Lawrence Schoonover, e. July 13, 1861.
Armitage, John.
Casseleman, Levi, vet. Dec. 9, 1863.
Gant, Matthew.
Johnson, W. D., vet. Jan. 5, 1864.
Larkey, Alex., died Feb. 19, 1862.
Company K
Phelan, Jas., e. Aug. 17, 1861.
Atwood, Chas. P., e. May 15, 1861, vet. Dec. 20, 1863.
Alspaugh, D. A., e. May 15, 1861.
Fairchilds, A. H., e. May 15, 1861, vet. Dec. 20, 1863.
Fitzsimmons, John, e. July 18, 1861.
Jamieson, Samuel, e. Aug. 17, 1861, vet. Dec. 20, 1863.
Kidder, John G., e. Aug. 17, 1861.
Company L
Q. M. S. James V' Brown, e. Aug. 25, 1861.
Sergt. H. A. O'Bladen.
Farrier Reuben Barnes, disd. Nov. 15, 1861.
Farrier Wm. J. Bowman, disd. Nov. 15, 1861.
Saddler Herman Bray, disd. Feb. 7, 1862.
Barnard, Wm., disd. Dec. i, 1861.
Maurice, Z., vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Brown, Milton, disd. Dec. 11, 1861.
Maurice, Nicholas, e. June 13, 1861, vet. Jan. 5, 1864.
Brown, Jas. V., e. Aug. 25, 1861.
Chase, Chas. A., e. Jan. i, 1864.
Lawyer, Stephen, died at Little Rock, Ark.
Watson, A. E., e. Dec. 7, 1863.
Smith, Wm., vet. Jan. 5, 1864.
Rogers, George, vet. Jan. 5, 1864.
Rice, James E., vet. Jan. 5, 1864.
Company Unknown
Ackerman, O. B., e. Jan. 23, 1864.
Bates, Chas., e. Jan. 23, 1864.
Barto, C. M., e. Feb. 15, 1864.
Dawson, John W., e. Jan. 25, 1864.
Fay, H. A., e. Jan. 5, 1864-
Mullford, James T., e. Jan. 5, 1864.
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McCarty, Chas., e. Jan. 23, 1864.
Phelan, Jas. H., e. March 8, 1864.
Phatigan, Thomas, e. June 23, 1864.
Slade, Vandelier, e. Feb. 17, 1864.
Thompson, A. J., e. Feb. 17, 1864.
SECOND CAVALRY.
(Note — This regiment was mustered out at Selma, Ala., Sept. 19, 1865.)
Company B
Corp. A. S. Cooper, e. July 30, 1861, disd. Feb. 7, 1862.
Barnett, Alfred, e. Dec. 14, 1863.
Potter, John J., e. Oct. 31, 1862, vet. March i, 1864.
Potter, I. W., e. Dec. 15, 1863.
Company I
Corp. Chas. C. Crocker, e. Aug. 4, 1861, wd. near Hurricane Creek, Miss.
Corp. Eli Mead, e. Aug. 4, 1861, trans, to Inv. Corp.
Corp. Isaac Ford, e. Aug. 14, 1861.
Davis, George W., e. Aug. 4, 1861.
Davis, James, e. Oct. 6, 1861.
Krokoskia, N., e. Aug. 4, 1861.
Kellum, Warren, e. Aug. 4, 1861, died at Benton Barracks.
Lamb, Henry, e. Aug. 4, 1861, disd. Sept. 3, 1862, disab.
Myrick, Rufus B., e. Aug. 14, 1861, vet. March i, 1864.
Potter, Daniel, e. Aug. 14, 1861, vet. March i, 1864.
Yotmt, John W., e. May 17, 1864.
Company L
Corp. Isaac N. Cooper, e. Sept. 12, 1861.
Saddler, Edw. Cooper, e. Sept. 12, 1861.
Edwards, Jacob, e. Sept. 12, 1861, vet. March i, 1864.
Edwards, Jas., e. Aug. 15, 1862, vet. March i, 1864.
Felby, Edw., vet. March i, 1864, kid. near Lynnville, Tenn.
Taylor, John, e. Sept. 12, 1861.
Company M
Dawson, John, e. Sept. 28, 1861, disd. Oct. 13, 1863, disab.
SIXTH CAVALRY.
(Note — This regiment was mustered out at Sioux City, Nov. 17, 1865.)
Company A
Hamilton, Qark, e. Oct. 13, 1862.
Hunter, Hiram, e. Oct. 24, 1862.
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Parsons, Jno., e. Dec. 30, 1862.
Scriven, Jas. W., e. Oct. 4, 1862.
Wentworth, Lorenzo, e. Dec. 30, 1862.
Company B
Bugh, John, e. Jan. i, 1863, disd. Feb. 24, 1865.
Herron, Jonathan, e. Oct. 13, 1863.
Company H.
Morgan, Jos., e. Nov. 5, 1862.
Company I,
Q. M. S. Jos. O. Reynolds, e. Nov. 19, 1862, disd. Oct. 6, 1864.
Company K.
Com. Sergt. Peter Reeger, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Sergt. M. W. Jeffries, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Sergt. Alvin R. Byerly, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Sergt. Darius S. Hinman, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Corp. Wm. Alspaugh, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Brookhouse, A. H., e. Sept. 12, 1862, disd. Oct. 23, 1863, disab.
Beeks, Wm. J., e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Coe, Jno. D., e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Chapper, Jno., e. Oct. 23, 1862.
Luce, Israel, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Myers, Sam'l, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Mann, Jno., e. Oct. 22, 1862, kid. White Stone Hill, D. T.
Mershon, Lewis, C, Sept. 12, 1862.
Shoop, Calvin, e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Shults, Jno. H., e. Sept. 12, 1862.
Sampson, Daniel, e. Oct. 21, 1862.
Company Unknown,
Edwards, Jno., e. Oct. i, 1864.
Tubbs, Wm., e. Oct. i, 1864.
SEVENTH CAVALRY.
Note — This portion of the regiment was mustered out at Sioux City, June
22, 1866.)
Company K.
Shover, Jno., e. Sept. 30, 1861, vet. Feb. 29, 1864.
Company M.
Capt. Geo. H. Wolfe, com. Oct. 25, 1861, m. o. Oct. 31, 1864, term exp.
Capt. Anthony Courtright, com. 2d lieut. Oct. 25, 1861, prmtd. capt. Nov.
25, 1864.
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First Lieut. L. G. Cunningham, e. as coms'y sergt. Sept. 28, 1861, prmtd. ist
lieut. Nov. 25, 1864.
Sergt. Samuel S. Wherry, e. Sept. 27, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Corp. John B. Greer, e. Sept. 26, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Corp. David Robinson, e. Oct. i, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Farrier Wm. F. Angstead, e. Oct. 15, 1861.
Brady, Wm., e. May 4, 1861.
Carter, Wm., e. Sept. 28, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Clarks, Jas., e. Sept. 28, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864, disd. Feb. i, 1866, disab.
Ferguson, Luther, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Ferguson, Chas., e. May 6, 1864.
Graham, Watson, e. Oct. 24, 1861.
Klise, J. W., e. Sept. 28, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Langan, Wm. P., e. Sept. 26, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864, disd Feb. 7, 1866^
disab.
Ratican, James, e. Sept. 28, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Reamer, Ralph, e. Sept. 26, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Seller, Joseph F., e. Oct. 2, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Smith, H. W., e. Sept. 27, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Swan, Avery, e. Sept. 28, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Turkle, Geo., e. Sept. 27, 1861.
Thurston, Wm. H., e. Sept. 26, 1861.
Wherry, M. M., e. Sept. 27, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
Welch, W. C, e. Sept. 26, 1861, vet. March 31, 1864.
Weeks, E. D., e. May 6, 1863.
Yule, Geo. W.. c. Sept. 26, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864.
EIGHTH CAVALRY.
(Note — This regiment was mustered out at Macon, Ga., Aug. 13, 1865.)
Company G,
Wagoner Isaac Ackarman, e. Aug. i, 1863.
Atkins, Robt., e. Aug. 7, 1863, disd. Dec. 18, 1863, disab.
Coffee, Thos., e. Aug. 8, 1863.
Goudy, John S., e. Aug. i, 1863.
Leaper, John A., e. Aug. i, 1863.
Leaper, John, e. Aug. 8, 1863.
McMillan, Jas. S., e. Aug. i, 1863.
Company L.
Corp. Wm. Fuller, e. Aug. 5, 1863, captd. at Newnan, Ga.
BodenhiflFer, George W., e. Aug. 19, 1863, captd. at Newnan, Ga.
Bentley, William, e. Aug. 15, 1863.
Fuller, Samuel H., e. Aug. 7, 1863.
Hawley, F. D., e. Aug. 12, 1863, wd. at Campbellville, Tenn.
Kinney, Thos. J., e. Aug. 26, 1863.
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McQueen, Adam, e. Aug. 5, 1863, died at Evansville, Ind.
Miller, Alonzo, e. Aug. i, 1863, died at Keokuk.
Wade, Wm., e. July 31, 1863, died at Chattanooga.
Company Unknown.
Munson, John, e. Nov. 23, 1864.
Smith, Henry, e. Nov. 23, 1864.
Wedley, John F., e. Nov. 23, 1864.
NINTH CAVALRY.
(Note — This regiment was mustered out at Little Rock, Feb. 3, 1866.)
Company K.
Capt. Jeremiah Lockwood, com. Nov. 30, 1863, resd. April 30, 1864.
Trumpeter John G. Krouse, e. Sept. 22, 1863.
Wagoner Silas Kenney, e. Oct. i, 1863.
Crook, Wm. C. H., e. Sept. 10, 1863, died at St. Louis.
Mann, Benj. F., e. Oct. i, 1863.
Sennot, Chas. P., e. Sept. 29, 1863.
Company Unknown.
Warden, Geo., e. Oct. 19, 1864.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FIRST INFANTRY.
Soper, E. B., e. April 24, 1861, m. o. Aug. 25, 1861.
Secrest, James M., e. April 24, 1861, m. o. Aug. 25, 1861.
THIRD INFANTRY.
. Corp. Charles A. Wilber, e. May 18, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Critchfield, Elliott, e. May 18, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Downer, Wm., e. May 18, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Downer, Horace, e. Nov. i, 1861, wd. and disd. Nov. 28, 1862.
Doty, Jas., e. May 18, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Emart, Jacob, e. May 18, 1861, died Nov. 15, 1861.
Maury, Jacob C, e. May 18, 1861, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Platts, Asa, e. May 18, 1861, wd. Shiloh, m. o. June 18, 1864.
Spence, James e. May 18, 1861, disd. Feb. 3, 1862.
FIFTH INFANTRY.
Thurston, M. E. e. June 24, 1861, wd. at luka.
Cocket, E. W., e. June 24, 1861, disd. Dec. 3, 1862.
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Corp. Geo. W. Foote, e. July i, 1861, m. o. August, 1864.
Corp. Jos. L. Carlin, e. July i, 186 1, m. o. August, 1864.
Conklin, Wm. E., e. July i, 1861, m. o. August, 1864.
Stitsman, Rinehart, e July i, 1861, m. o. August, 1864.
SIXTH INFANTRY.
Asst. Surgeon, Norman M. Smith, com. Oct. 22, 1862.
EIGHTH INFANTRY.
Kelley, A. W., e. Aug. 14, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Primley, Wm. e. Aug. 14, 1861, captd. at Shiloh.
Withell, Elias M., e. Aug. 14, 1861, disd. March 13, 1862, disab.
ELEVENTH INFANTRY.
Asst. Surgeon J. C. Batford, com. Oct. 25, 1863 ; resd. June 5, 1863.
First Lieut. John A. White, com. July 26, 1865.
Corp. Albert B. Siles, e. Sept. 28, 1861, died May 4, 1862.
Musician Geo. M. Titus, e. Sept. 18, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.
Second Lieut. Abram E. Wood, prmtd. 2d lieut. June 7, 1865.
Bowman, Godfrey, e. Oct. 15, 1861, disd. Feb. 3, 1865, disab.
Foot, Jas., e. Oct. 15, 1861, died Aug. 4, 1862.
Lockwood, J., e. Oct. 15, 1861, disd. Dec. 11, 1861, disab.
Postelwaight, J. J., e. Oct. 15, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, wd.
Shaffer, Samuel B., e. Oct. i, 1861, disd. Jan. i, 1862.
Selby, Henry, e. Oct. 15, 1861, disd. March 3, 1862.
SIXTEENTH INFANTRY.
Blake, James, e. Dec. 9, 1861, wd. Shiloh.
Brown, George, e. Dec. 12, 1861, trans, to Inv. Corps.
Bodenhoffer, John, e. Dec. 19, 1861, vet. Feb. 28, 1864, wd.
Corbin, Aaron F., e. Dec. 20, 1861, died June 30, 1862.
Hulett, Oliver B., e. Jan. 23, 1862, died Aug. 5.
Hamilton, Alexander, e. Feb. 23, 1863, vet. Feb. 28, 1864. died Aug. 7, 1864.
Capt. Marshall C. Fuller, com. March 24, 1862, m. o. June 10, 1862.
Corp. Alexander Maple, vet. Jan. 16, 1864, Captd. July 22, 1864.
EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY.
Corp. Henry A. Burch, e. July 11, 1862, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Bower, Wilson, e. July 9. 1862, m. o. July 20, 1865.
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Dumont, Thomas R., e. July 9, 1862, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Hodge, Alfred, e. July 11, 1862, wd. Jan. 8, 1863.
Hazebrigg, A. J., e. July 7, 1862, m. o. July 20, 1865.
Phillips, Jerome, e. July 21, 1862, disd. Feb. 19, 1863, disab.
Russell, C. C, e. July 17, 1862, m. o. July 20, 1865.
TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY.
Bly, Joseph, e. June 25, 1862, m. o. July 15, 1865.
Beatty, David, e. Sept. 27, 1864, m. o. July 15, 1865.
JeflFerson, Charles H., e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o. July 15, 1865.
Kress, H. W., e. Aug. 22, 1862, disd. March 20, 1863, disab.
McMahon, Patrick, e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o. July 15, 1865.
Robins, Amos, e. July 28, 1862, m. o. July 15, 1865.
TWENTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
Sergt. M. R. Brown, e. June 27, 1862, disd. May 22, 1863, disab.
Corp. Alonzo D. Linde, e. July 7, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Farmer, S. H., e. July 7, 18^, died Oct. 19, 1863.
Kanally, James, e. Aug. 2, 1862, died Dec. 27, 1862.
Low, Edwin, e. July 7, 1862, m. o. June 6, 1865.
Reed, Charles, e. June 13, 1862, died Feb. 22, 1863.
Williams, John L., e. July 7, 1862, trans.
THIRTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.
GiflFord, C. M., e. Aug. 13, 1862, disd. Feb. 9, 1863.
Dickey, R. B., e. Jan. 23, 1864, m. o. Aug. 15, 1865.
THIRTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.
Betzer, Aaron R., e. Aug. 19, 1862, trans.
THIRTY-NINTH INFANTRY.
Qine, Chas., e. Aug. 22, 1862, kid. Oct. 5, 1864.
Rye, Wm., e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Snyder, J. F., e. Aug. 22, 1862, captd. Oct. 5, 1864.
Wry, Absalom, e. Aug. 22, 1862, m. o. June 5, 1865.
Wry, James, e. Aug. 22, 1862, died Feb. 19, 1865.
FORTY-SIXTH INFANTRY.
Thurlow, L. C, e. May 30, 1864, m. o. Sept. 23, 1864.
Coolsmith, Wm., e. May 30, 1864, m. o. Sept. 23, 1864.
Klise, Chas. F., e. May 30, 1864, m. o. Sept. 23, 1864.
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FOURTH CAVALRY.
Second Lieut. Michael McLaughlin, e. as sergt., Sept. 23, 1861, com. ad lieut
Sept. 28, 1864, returned to ist sergt.
Corp. George M. Stewart, e. Sept. 23, 1861, m. o. Aug. 10, 1865.
Pierce, Laban, vet. Dec. 19, 1863.
FIFTH CAVALRY.
Painter, Wm. H., e. Feb. 26, 1864, m. o. Aug. 11, 1865.
FIFTH VETERAN CAVALRY.
Burlingham, Mark, e. Feb. 20, 1864.
Newcomb, Geo. W., e. Feb. 29, 1864.
Samons, Curtis^ e. Feb. 29, 1864.
Sergt. Luther V. Brainard, Oct. 7, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864, prisoner of war.
Sergt. William D. Gleason, e. Oct. 25, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864,
Brainard, John F., e. Feb. 6, 1861, vet. Feb. 6, 1864.
Edwards, G. H., e. Oct. 25, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Ensign, G., e. Feb. 26, 1861, vet. Feb. 26, 1864.
Isabell, M. M., e. March 7, 1861, vet. March 7, 1864.
Parmenter, Wm. H., e. Feb. 26, 1861.
Randall, O., e. Feb. 26, 1861.
THIRD BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Dodge, Frederick D., vet. March 21, 1864, m. o. Oct. 3, 1865.
Waudick, Thos., vet. Dec. 22, 1863, m. o. Oct. 3, 1865.
Waddick, Wm., vet. Dec. 22, 1863, m. o. Oct. 3, 1865.
ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST.
Artificer J. P. Davis, e. Sept. 21, 1861.
Artificer Andrew J. Norton, e. Sept. 21, 1861.
THIRTEENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Musician Samuel Huber, e. April 24, 1861.
THIRTY-THIRD ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Cole, Edmund F., e. Aug. 21, 1861, disd. May, 1864.
THIRTY-SEVENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Black, Jas., e. Sept. 8, 1861, m. o. May 15, 1866.
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FIFTY-FIRST ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Gavin, Wm., e. Jan. 28, 1862, m. o. Sept. 25. 1865,
SECOND KANSAS CAVALRY.
Corp. Jacob S. Ray, e. Sept. 28, 1861.
Hays, Horace, e. Sept. 14, 186 1.
Hoskins, P. L., e. Nov. 14. 1861.
Tyrell, Isaac N., e. Oct. 28, 1861.
THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.
Wood, Abram E., e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Sergt. Hector E. Baldwin, e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Breithaupt, C. F., e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Brundage, Oliver, e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Bunce, Wesley, e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1861.
Coffee, Ezra, e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Davis, Wm., e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Gibbony, Jas., e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Kane, Peter, e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Kohl, D., e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
McArthur, John, e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Dec. i, 1863.
Phelan, D. J., e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
Warrington, I. C, e. Sept. 17, 1861, vet. Jan. i, 1864.
LIST OF SOLDIERS IN JONES COUNTY AS SHOWN BY THE ASSESSOR'S
BOOKS IN 1885.
The list given below of the soldiers in Jones county is possibly not as complete
as would be desired, but it will furnish an interesting and valuable table for refer-
ence. The record is good so far as it could be obtained from the assessor's books
of that year and published in the Anamosa Eureka.
' Cass Township.
Atwood, C. P., Private K, ist Iowa Cav.
Benskotec, V. W., Private G, 148 Pa.
Boots, Joseph, Private B, 13th 111.
Beebec, Charles, Private C, losth 111.
Cunningham, H. H., Private E, 137th N. Y.
Denio, Peter, Private D, 98th N. Y.
Daywitt, M. C, Private K, 12th Iowa Cav.
Jones, J. P., Drummer D, 8th Kansas.
Monroe, H. H., Private E, 31st Iowa.
Rushford, Nelson, Private D, I42d N. Y.
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Smith, D. G., Private D, 2d Iowa.
Chopper, John, Private K, 6th Iowa Cav.
Wilson, W. E., Private I, 149th N. Y. Inf.
Castle Grove,
GaIHgan, Wm., Private H, 31st Iowa.
McLaughlin, M., ist Sergt. B, 4th Iowa Cav.
Ommen, Peter, Private C, 21st Iowa Inf.
O'Rouke, Lawrence, Private B, 46th 111. R^.
Rearick, Wm., Private D, 2nd Iowa.
Summerville, David, Private H, 7th Ohio.
♦Troy, Edward, Private 6th Iowa Inf.
Waddick, Thomas, Private, 3d Iowa Bat.
Clay.
Bodenhofer, J. H., Corporal H, i6th Iowa Inf.
Bodenhofer, G. W., Private L, 8th Iowa Inf.
Kinney, T. J., Private L, 8th Iowa Inf.
Donahue, Wm., Private M, 6th Iowa Inf.
French, I. N., Private F, 31st Iowa Inf.
Herrington, John, Private A, i8th Iowa Inf.
Lee, J. F., ist Sergt. F, 12th Iowa Inf.
McGlocklin, Wm., Private D, 2d Iowa Inf.
Whitson, James, Private K, 15th Kan. Cav.
Undergraf, Joseph, Private A, 9th Iowa Inf.
Johnson, J. R., Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Russell, John, Private C, 14th Iowa Inf.
Osbom, Lyman, Private I, 47th Wis. Inf.
Brown, E. E., Private H, 2d Iowa Inf.
Hanna, J. D., Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Moncrief, Jas., Private F, 25th Iowa Inf.
Lavery, Hugh, Private B, 21st 111. Inf.
Hanna, G. A., Private A, 13th Iowa Inf.
McDaniel, O.
Fairview.
*Shaw, W. T., Sergt. C, 2d Ky. Vol. Inf.
Shaw, W. T., Col. 14th Iowa Vol. Inf.
Bromily, W. T., Sergt. H, 146th N. Y. Inf.
Cash, John, Private A, N. Y. Inf.
Strickle, James, Private A, 45th 111. Inf.
Darsee, Napoleon, Private G, 6oth N. Y. Inf.
Darsee, N., Private E, 65th N. Y. Inf.
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Brown, J. J., Private B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Walbridge, W. W., Private F, 15th N. Y. Inf.
Qine, Wm., Private F, 13th Iowa Inf.
Post, Daniel L., Private H, 24th Iowa Inf.
Ronen, John, Private A, 7th Iowa Cav.
Harter, G. W., Private E, iioth Ohio Inf.
Northrop, James, Private H, 14th Iowa Inf.
Northrop, Henry, Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Campbell, John, Private F, 45th 111. Inf.
Campbell, John, Private A, 90th 111. Inf.
Wry, Wm., Corporal K, 39th Iowa Inf.
Leaper, John A., Private D, 8th Iowa Inf.
Worden, John H., Private G, 24th Iowa Inf.
Ridings, James, Private D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Scott, Geo. W., Private E, 46th Iowa Inf.
Ruhl, Wm. G., Private K, I, D, loth 111. Cav.
Moyer, Samuel, 111. Inf.
Dragoo, I. N. Private K, 7th Iowa Inf.
Weatherson, Luke, Private K, 26th Iowa Inf.
Kerr, Porter, Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Leaper, John W., Private G, 8th Iowa Inf.
Anamosa.
Burlingham, P. M., Private D, sth Iowa Cav.
Purcell, Martin, Private M, 7th Iowa Cav.
Bunce, Reuben, Private L, ist Iowa Cav.
Mudd, Hillary, Private C, 44th Wis. Inf.
Pierce, Lucian D., Corporal F, 33d Wis. Inf.
Bamhard, John H., Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Brown, Milton R., Private L, ist Iowa Cav.
Fish, Wm. D., Private C, ist Iowa Cav.
Aldrich, Lucian C, Private E, 2d Vermont Inf.
Cook, Wm., Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Arnold, Hiram, Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Thompson, Thomas, Private B, 32d Iowa Inf.
McGowan, Calvin, Private B., 9th Iowa Inf.
Brant, E. H., Private C, 144th N. Y. Inf.
Mason, Presley R., Private C, 51st 111. Inf.
Slingeriand, G. H., Private F, i8th 111. Inf.
Eaton, Amos V., Corporal H., i8th Iowa Inf.
Pope, Solomon A., Private D, 2d Iowa Inf.
Stickley, Robert, Private C, 31st Iowa Inf.
Healy, Robert, Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Moreland, John, Private F, 20th Iowa Inf.
Stickney, James, Private B, 6th Iowa Cav.
Chapman, Carlos, Private H, 14th Iowa Inf.
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Chadwick, David, Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Foley, Wm. B., Private H, 5th Iowa Cav.
Templeman, U. F., Private H, 20th Iowa Inf.
Wilson, Andrew G., Private H, 8th Mich. Cav.
Washington, P., Private G, 15th Iowa Inf.
Keeler, Ezra, Sergt Sig. Corps, U. S. A.
Chapman, Frank, Corporal K, ist N. Y. Art.
Phelin, James H., Private K, ist Iowa Cav.
Scroggs, John A., Private A, 44th Iowa Inf.
Kelly, David H., Private L, 7th Iowa Cav.
Nandell, Robert, Private G, 14th Mo. Inf.
Fisher, Frank, Private H, 13th Iowa Inf.
Simons, William H., Sergt. G, 33d Wis. Inf.
Lamson, James H., Private G, 9th Iowa Inf.
Yount, Geo. L., 2d lieut. I, ist Iowa Inf.
Yount, G. L., 2d lieut. H, 3rd Mo. Inf.
Jackels, Wm. O., Private F, 74th 111. Inf.
Gard, Samuel S., Private C, ist Minn. Inf.
Wilds, T. M., Private C, 2d Iowa Cav.
Sigworth, H. W., 5th Sergt. H, 67th lU. Inf.
Johnson, James, Private H, 24th Iowa Inf.
Patterson, T. E., Corporal E, ist Iowa Cav.
Wilkinson, Robert, Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Sigworth, Miles P;, ist Lieut. G, 155th Pa. Inf.
McMiller, John, Private A, 32nd Iowa Inf.
Rosencrans, Lewis, Private C, 134th 111. Inf.
Dunklee, Freeman S., Private A, 36th 111. Inf.
Wood, E. J., Private F, 115th Ohio Inf.
Brasted, Isaac H., Private L, ist N. Y. Art.
Cudworth, John G., Captain C, 20th N. Y. Cav.
Condit, E. M., Corporal C, 7th Ohio Inf.
Barnard, Wm., Private L, ist Iowa Cav.
Prentice, T. S., Private E, nth Wis. Inf.
Aldrich, A. W., horse farrier E, 5th N. Y. Cav.
Schoonover, L., Private G, ist Iowa Cav.
Kempsey, M. C, Colonel, 87th U. S. C. D.
Hammond, Geo., Private B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Gillen, Owen E., Com. Sergt., 5th Iowa Cav.
Adair, L. J., Orderly Sergt. H, 104th Ohio Inf.
Desart, Leander E., Private H, 34th Iowa Inf.
Valendingham, W. H., Private C, 7th Iowa Inf.
Kenyon, M. B., Private, 8th N. Y. Art.
Nowlin, Fred, Private K, 14th Iowa Inf.
Parsons, Thos. T., Captain F, 48th U. S. Inf.
Fargo, Wilson D., Band, 8th Mich. Inf.
Alspaugh, Wm., Sergt. K, 6th Iowa Cav.
HoUenbeck, H.. Private F, 20th Iowa Inf.
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Hall, Samuel C, Corporal H, 14th Iowa Inf.
Clothier, Smith, Private G, 2d 111. Art.
Griffin, John C, Private C, 153d 111. Inf.
Coe, C. W., Sergt. F, 20th Iowa Inf.
Brimdige, O., Private F, 31st Iowa Inf.
Buckner, Thos., Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Brown, Wm. M., Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Maudsley, C. W., Private H, 31st Iowa Inf.
Strawberry Hill.
Curttright, Elias, Private F, 13th Iowa.
Dickerson, Wm., Private E, 13th Iowa.
Russel, D., Chaplain, 104th N. Y. Vol.
Greenfield.
Tathwell, E., Private A, 96th Ohio.
Leonard, W. P., Private Sig. Service, Iowa.
Duncan, James, Private H, 14th Iowa.
English, David, Seaman, Pa.
Vernon, John, Private C, I42d Ohio.
Mitchell, James, Private A, 198th Ohio.
Miller, E. V., ist Lieut. F, 13th Iowa.
Hilton, A. W., Private M, ist N. Y.
Zimmerman, H., Private F, 13th Iowa.
Davis, Geo. W., Sergt. G, 2d Iowa.
Kane, Peter, Corporal F, 13th Iowa.
Mettee, Geo., 2d Lieut. B, nth Ind.
Swan, John, Private K, 9th Iowa.
Hale,
Click, W. H., Corporal B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Soper, G. W., Private K, 35th Iowa Inf.
Whitney, J. H., Private B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Chatterton, H. P., Private H, ii8th N. Y. Inf.
Simmons, Coleman, Private B, 24th Iowa Inf.
Sawyer, Samuel, Corporal E, 169th N. Y. Inf.
Holmes, T. J., Private B, N. Y.
Giddings, W. F., Private H, 33d 111. Inf.
Smith, B. A., Private G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Lewis, George, Private L, 15th 111. Cav.
Young, Benj., Private K, 17th 111. Cav.
Wolfe, Geo. H., Captain M, 7th Iowa Cav.
Austin, Thomas, Sergt. 31st Iowa Inf.
Scriven, B. H., Private A, 15th Iowa Inf.
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Cole, Simeon W., Sergt. G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Starry, Wm., Sergt. B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Garrison, W. S., Private G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Demoney, B. A., Private H, 57th Pa. Inf.
Qay, J. R., Private B, 24th Iowa Inf.
Qay, D. A., Private B, 24th Iowa Inf.
Freeman, H. C, Lieut G, 31st Iowa inf.
Austin, J. C, Captain G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Jackson.
Grassfield, David, Private F, 20th Iowa.
Meeks, Wm., Private D, 2d Iowa.
Cylmer, Charles, Private G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Byers, Samuel, Private E, 2d Iowa.
Dart, M. J., Private B, 2d Mo.
Ryan, Lyman, Private K, 2d Iowa.
Belknap, Cable, Private E, 2d Ind.
Casteel, M., Private F, Wurz Mo. Battery.
Meek, I. H., Private G, 51st Ohio.
Foust, Benj., Private C, 44th Iowa.
James, Walter, Lieut. B, 9th Iowa.
Lyons, J. W., Private E, 31st Iowa.
Blood, O. T., Corporal G, 112th N. Y.
Anderson, M. A., Private B, 45th 111.
Bunce, Reuben, Vet. L, ist Iowa Cav.
Ireland, B. F., Private G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Madison.
Cobum, Robert, Private A, 143d Ohio Inf.
Krouse, John G., Trumpeter K, 9th Iowa Cav.
Krouse, J. G., 14th Iowa Inf.
Himebaugh, H. H., Private C, 44th Iowa Inf.
Sutton, Henry G., Private O, 5th Iowa Cav.
Pelkey, Israel, Corporal B, 5th Mich. Art.
Pelkey, I., Corporal H, 8th Mich. Cav.
Dodge, Warren, Private C, 88 111.
Slife, James, Private G, 24th Iowa Inf.
Carter, Samuel, Private E, 45th Iowa Inf.
Leggett, J., Private A, ist N. Y. Dragoons.
Preston, David, Private K, ist Maryland Cav.
Hall, James L., Sergt. K, 24th Iowa Inf.
McKelvey, T. H., Private U. S. S. Corps.
Espy, R. J., Private D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Crans, Adolphus W.
Ingram, John, Private H, 31st Iowa Inf.
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Wright, J. W., Corporal A., 12th W. Va- Cav.
Jenkins, Royal A., Private B, 145th Pa. Inf.
Bugh, Alexander, Private B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Davis, Wm., Private I, 326. Ohio Inf.
Gridley, Charles B., Sergt. G, 9th Iowa Inf.
Brutsman, Frank, Private A, 92d 111. Inf.
i£vans, Geo. W., Private H, 21st 111. Inf.
LeMaster, J. A., Corporal D, 45th 111. Inf.
Wirt, John, Private A, 196th Ohio Inf.
Courtney, J. H., Private K, 31st Iowa Inf.
Farrington, G. L., Private 3, Iowa Bat.
Grimm, F., Sergt. 7, Ohio Ind't Bat.
Noyes, N. B., Corporal F, 29th Ohio Inf.
James, J. W., Captain A, 12th W. Va. Cav. Confcd.
Monticello.
McGregor, Geo., Private H, ist Md. Inf.
Sarles, S. E., Private ist. 111.
Stuart, B., Private D, 9th Iowa.
Whittemore, F. A., ist Lieut. F, 21st Iowa.
Albinger, J., Private 21st, Iowa.
Winsor, J. H., Private C, 39th Wis. Inf.
Rather, J. J., Private A, 50th Wis. Inf.
Pierce, H. F., Private C, 31st Iowa.
Magee, D. F., ist Lieut. D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Grover, I. W., Private I, ist Minn.
Mellett, E. T., ist Lieut. E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Dawson, I. H., Private 5th, 111. Light Art.
Quimby, D. C, Corporal F, 37th Iowa Inf.
Farwell, S. S., Major 31st, Iowa Inf.
Merrill, J. W., Private I, 52d 111. Inf.
Graves, James, Private A, 52d 111. Inf.
Dolphin, John, Private A, 21st Iowa Inf.
Ryder, C. J., Captain H, io6th N. Y.
Smith, Nathan, Private M, 2d Iowa Cav.
McConnon, John, Private H, 31st Iowa.
Morris, N., Private L, ist Iowa Cav.
Develin, Peter, Private F, 73d Pa.
Hughs, Isaac, Private F, 21st Iowa.
Eulanks, John, Private L, 4th Iowa.
Zigler, Jacob, Private I, 37th Iowa Inf.
Matthews, John, Private H, 31st Iowa.
Haussler, Lewis, Private C, 17th N. Y. Inf.
. Dufoe, Fred, Private D, nth Mo.
Jones, W. B., Private F, 21st Iowa Inf.
Ackerman, Isaac, Private G, 8th Iowa Inf.
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McCulloogh, M., Private C, 8th Pa. Cav.
Miller, Isaac, Corporal D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Pond, D. E., ist Lieut., 7th U. S. Vol.
Foster, L., Private L, 3d Iowa Cav.
Monroe, C. A., Private C, 44th Iowa Inf.
Waugh, W. H., Private I, 34th Ind. Inf.
Springer, Dennis, Private H, 4th Minn. Inf.
Jarret, Benj., Private A, 31st Iowa.
Ruger, John, Private I, ist Wis. Inf.
Dunham, F. S., 2d Lieut. L, 2d Cav.
Stillman, J. R., 2d Lieut. B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Gardiner, I. L., Private G, 130th N. Y. Inf.
Chesterfield, C, Private G, ist Mich.
Howard, E. N., Private C, 2d 111. light Art.
Nichols, A. J., Private G, 19th Iowa Inf.
Edwards, E. P., Private F, 31st Iowa Inf.
Smith, N. M., Surgeon, 6th Iowa Inf.
Hicks, Frank, Private H, 31st Iowa Inf.
Gregory, W. H., Corp. C, 8th U. S. Inf.
Harrir^on, John, Private I, 21st Iowa Inf.
Cassidy, J. P., Private D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Crawford, C. A., ist Lieut. L, 8th Iowa Cav.
Sloan, John, Private C, 6th Iowa Cav.
Towle, C A., ist Sergt. D, 15th N. H. Inf.
Nelson, John, Private E, 3d Mass. Vol.
Cassidy, Andrew, Private C, 2d Iowa Inf.
Hartsough. W. D., Corporal F, 3d Iowa Inf.
Phillips, I. H., Private D, 142 Ohio Inf.
Monticello City.
Voorhees, James, Private I, 32d 111.
Conway, Wm., Private I, 41st Iowa.
Clark, John L., Private I, 21st Iowa.
Frye, John H., Sergt. H, 13th Iowa.
Skelly, James, Corporal I, 26th Ind.
Grover, Samuel, Private F, Iowa.
Davidson, James, ist Lieut. G, 52d 111.
Breen, Michael, Private D, 9th Iowa.
Shover, John, Private A, 12th Iowa Inf.
Shover, John, Private K, 7th Iowa Cav.
Fitzimmons, John, Sergt. K, ist Iowa.
Quaintance, M. A., Private D, 33d Iowa.
Fawkes, Allen, Private G, ist Iowa.
Chapman, C. C, Private C, 28 Mich.
Lawrence, Fred, Private H, 31st Iowa.
Haun, George M., 2d Iowa.
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Beranek, John F, 44th Iowa Inf.
Sutton, John E., 7th Cav.
Steele, Wm., Cav.
Robinson, Wm., G, 31st Iowa.
Cook, George, 133 Ohio.
Field, Geo. H., nth N. Y. Cav.
Nichols, Chas., N. Y. Art.
Coulton, Lorene D., ist Sergt. B, 9th Iowa.
Courttright, A., Captain M. 7th Iowa Cav.
Cooper, Emil, 7th Iowa Cav.
McDonald, Samuel, ist Lieut. A, 93d 111. Vol.
Keller, Andrew, B, 6th Iowa Cav.
Sutliff, Wm., C, 2d Iowa.
Dyson, Thomas, 6th Iowa Cav.
Reamer, Ralph, C, 14th Iowa Cav.
Seykes, R., E, 96th Ohio.
Thurston, Wm., 7th Iowa Cav.
Langan, W. P., Corp. M, 7th Iowa Cav.
Wilimek, Vinel, 17th Iowa.
Munsell, E. L., ist Wis. Inf.
Munsell, E. L., Private ist, U. S. Shooters.
Zellers, Joseph, Private M, 7th Iowa Inf.
Oxford Junction,
Blakely, H. M., Corporal I, 24th Iowa Inf.
Fessenden, Wm., Private.
Hastings, G. A., Private A, 74th 111. Inf.
Keech, John H., Private I, 92d 111. Inf.
Kilmer, Wm., Musician G, 127th 111. Inf.
Millsap, John, Private D, nth Iowa Inf.
Stout, John, Private A, nth 111. Inf.
Sacora, Joseph, Private C, 15th Iowa Inf.
Watson, M. D., Private Battery E, ist R. I.
Richland.
Loes, Jacob, Private I, 21st Iowa Inf.
Moore, William, Private I, 21st Iowa Inf.
Beatty, David, Private I, 21st Iowa Inf.
Wright, James, Private D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Hein, J. A., Private D, ist U. S.
Rome,
Stewart, J. A., Private B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Fisher, Wm., Private G, 104th Ohio Inf.
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Ristine, J. G., Private B, 72d Ind. Inf.
Emerson, Charles, Private G, 31st Iowa Inf.
White, William, Private G, 24th Iowa Inf.
Handy, , 2d Lieut. G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Olin.
Barker, Usal, Private B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Brickley, J. T., Private B, 9th Iowa Inf.
Brock, C. L., Private F, 104th 111. Inf.
Bell, J. J., Private F, 13th Iowa Inf.
Qothier, Theo., Private G, 31st Iowa Inf.
Duncan, W. F., Private C, 83d 111.
Dicus, W. H., Private G, ist 111. Cav.
Ellis, W. H., Private K, 24th Iowa.
Green, Albert, Private B, 9th Iowa.
Holmes, O. P., Private H, 35th Iowa.
Ireland, S., Private G, 31st Iowa.
Jackson, A. J., Corporal C, 203 Pa.
Mason, C. W., Private D, 3d Pa. Art.
Olmstead, P. E., ist Sergt. I, 53d 111.
Pike, J. L., Private K, 17th Iowa.
Price, J. M., ist Corporal B, 9th Iowa.
Reed, S. W., Private G, 31st Iowa.
Rummel, D. E., ist Corporal B, 9th Iowa.
Stivers, E. H., Private F, 5th Iowa Cav.
Simpson, J. C, Private G, 3is^ Iowa.
Sealls, B., Private A, 15th Iowa.
Starry, Daniel, Private G, 31st Iowa.
Sealls, E. R., Private H, 35th Iowa.
Sherman, B., Private B, 9th Iowa.
Vrooman, W. L., Private G, 34th Iowa.
Waldo, H. H., Private E, 5th Iowa Cav.
White, J. A., Lieut. E, nth Iowa.
Scotch Grove,
Marshall, Thomas, Private G. 3d Iowa.
Murray, James, Private L, 5th Iowa Cav.
Davis, Francis A., Corporal I, 24th Iowa Inf.
Sutherland, Adam, Private D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Orr, John, Private D, 37th Mass. Inf.
Fuller, Wm., Private D, 9th Iowa Inf.
Murphy, Chas. H., Private C, 44th Iowa Inf.
Sutherland, John, ist Lieut. D, 9th Iowa Inf.
McKean, C. B., Private C, 44th Iowa Inf.
Hoyt, Ed., Private I, loth Iowa Inf.
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Barahill, R. S., Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Ferrian, F. W., ist Sergt M, 2d Iowa Cav.
Sweesy, M., ist Sergt. H, 31st Iowa Inf.
Eby, Samuel, Corporal A, 24th Iowa Inf.
IVashington.
Fagan, John, Private I, 21st Iowa.
Fagan, Hugh, Private I, 21st.
Flannigan, Chas., Private B, 6th
McCanna, James O., Private B, 6th
Wayne,
Himebaugh, G. L., Private D, 2d Iowa Inf.
Heasty, A. M., Private M, 2d Cal. Inf.
Scheer, C, Private H, Military Acad. Vol.
Bates, John, Private C, 2d Iowa Inf.
Stutt, John, Private D, 34th 111.
Stutt, John, Private E, La. Light Bat.
Hartman, P. J., Corporal H, 14th Iowa Inf.
Burke, T., Private I, 47th Pa.
Weiss, J. A., Drummer B, 54th Pa. Inf.
Walker, M. H., Private D, 169 Pa. Inf.
Smith, W., Private A, 57th Ohio Inf.
Reymore, G. W., Private K, ist N. Y. Light Art.
Priest, J. D., Private D, 2d Iowa.
Wager, J., Private D, N. Y.
Bigley, Noah, Sergt. I, 37th Iowa.
French, Henry, Private D, 34th 111.
Green, W. H., E, 92d Ohio.
IVyoming.
Bottomstone, Geo., Private E, 9th Pa. Cav.
Rohwedder, Hans, Private M, ist Iowa Cav.
Spencer, James, Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Tebo, D. G., Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Tompkins, O., Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Cameron, W. T., ist Lieut. B, 143d Ohio.
Scripture, James, Private C, 21st Iowa Inf.
Johnson, James, Private B, 26th Iowa Inf.
Finch, I. C, Private D, i8th Mich. Inf.
Streets, John, Private H, 76, Ohio Inf.
Morse, M. H., Private F, 31st Iowa Inf.
Lamey, Thos., Private F, 31st Iowa Inf.
Paul, H. F., Private K, 24th Iowa Inf.
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Woody ard, Jerry, Sergt K, 24th Iowa Inf.
Curttright, J. E., Private E, 31st Iowa Inf.
Chase, Geo., Iowa.
Wyoming City.
Bender, J. J., Sergt. H, 14th Iowa.
Bronson, J. W., Private K, 24th Iowa.
Marshall, T. R., Lieut., 121st Ohio.
Calkins, Riley, Fifer K, 24th Iowa.
Wiggans, Del., Private A, 44th Iowa.
Fuller, Ed., Drummer H, 44th Wis.
Merrett, C, Private, 31st Iowa,
Champlain. E. B.. Private, 155th Ohio.
Grindrod, J., Blacksmith A, 9th Iowa.
Hepler, A. W., Private, loth Iowa.
Mullett. M. J., Private, 44th Iowa.
Aldrich. Henry, Fifer G, 31st Iowa.
Shibley, Oliver, Drummer G, 31st Iowa.
Peck, \V. H., Sergt. F, 31st Iowa.
Williams, R. S., ist Lieut. K, 24th Iowa.
Loomis, A. ^L, Captain K, 24th Iowa.
Hart, A. A., Private K, loist 111.
Hopkins, C. B., Private H, 58th Pa.
Ashcraft. J. A., Private, 207th Pa.
Pealer, David, wagoner E, 20th Ind.
Lindsey, Xick, Private E, 126th 111.
Loudermilch, J., Private F, 104th Pa.
Hawley, Frank, Private L, ist Iowa Cav.
Thomas, Elihu, Private, 14th Iowa.
Calkins, R. J., Private K, 24th Iowa.
Hoskins, A. R., Private M, 6th Iowa Cav.
Mackrill, S. R., Private K, 24th Iowa.
Bradshaw, P. R., Iowa.
McMillan, D. L., 111.
THE SPANISH WAR.
The blowing up of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana on the
evening of February 15, 1898, led to events in history which became of interest
to the people of Jones county. On April 19, 1898, the congress of the United
States adopted resolutions declaring Cuba independent, and this action precipitated
open war with Spain. In the call by the United States for troops, a number of
men from Jones county volunteered their services in behalf of the cause of Cuba.
No company was organized in the county. Those from the county enlisting in the
service were recruits, and consequently the names of those who participated in that
short but decisive international war, cannot be accurately determined. Our infor-
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mation has been fragmentary, but it is ascertained that among those from Jones
county in the service were : Orla Wherry, Edward Parks, Walter T. Noyes, Ervin
E. Reed, Newell Berga, Will Campbell, Geo. Hemon, Geo. Hogan, John White,
Perry Sigworth and Chas. Rorah.
One soldier surrendered his life blood in the cause. Walter T. Noyes, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Noyes of Onslow, died in the hospital at Montauk Point,
Long Island, in 1898, of fevers contracted in Cuba. This noble life went out in
the prime of young manhood. But the blood of patriotism flowed in his veins.
His father before him was a soldier in the Civil war. Walter Noyes was a mem-
ber of Company H, Sixteenth United States Infantry, in the regular army. His
body was brought to Onslow and now lies buried in the Wyoming cemetery.
BANKS AND BANKING.
The record presented by this chapter will be found to be One of the most valu-
able in determining the magnitude of the development of the resources of the
county, and in securing a proper estimate of the present condition of the wealth
of the people.
The record herein given, includes every bank in Jones county at the present
time, with the exception of The Bank of Martelle from which the editor has
been unable to secure any statement in regard to its financial condition. Omitting
this one bank, the resources of the county show an aggregate amount of money
on deposit in the several banks, of $4,787,305.86 and an aggregate capital in-
vested of $660,000.00, and the aggregate assets or resources of nearly
$6,000,000.00.
The statement given below will show at a glance the present status of the banks
of the county as to deposits, capital and assets.
Deposits Capital Total Assets
Onslow Savings Bank. . $ 143454.17 $20,000 $ 165,234.19
Monticello State Bank 1,410,090.03 100,000 1,720,648 41
T^vell State Bank 786,574.1 1 100,000 967,293.03
Oxford Savings Bank 201,888.70 15,000 225,955.72
Citizens Ex. Oxford 137400.00 50,000 157,510.00
Citizens Savings, Olin 98,317.82 20,000 127,403.74
First Natl Bank, Olin 124,294.83 25,000 181,144.49
Farmer's Savings, Martelle 40,314.09 10,000 50,314.09
Citizens Savings, Anamosa 122,56349 50,000 172,761.93
Niles & Watters, Anamosa 605,272.92 50,000 690,549.17
Anamosa National, Anamosa 626,528.05 150,000 905,827.78
National Bank, Wyoming 269,607.65 50,000 373,32046
Citizens Bank, Wyoming 221,000.00 20,000 240,000.00
Total $4,787,305.86 $660,000 $5,977,963.01
The financial status of the county by localities, will be seen by the following
table, giving the aggregate deposits, capital and assets by towns.
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Deposits
Monticello $2,196,664.14
Anamosa 1,354,364.46
Wyoming 490,607.65
Oxford Junction 339,288.70
Olin 222,612.65
Onslow 143454.17
Martelle 40,314.09
Total $4,787,305.86
Capital
Total Assets
$200,000
$2,687,94144
250,000
1,769,138.88
70,000
613,32046
65,000
383465.72
45.000
308,548.23
20,000
165,234.19
10,000
50,314.09
$660,000
$5,977,963-01
The above table is hardly fair to the Martelle locality for the reason that The
Martelle Bank has not been included. It is safe to say the total assets of Jones
county, as represented by the banks of the county, is over six million dollars.
We give below a short sketch, and a comparative statement of the several banks
in the county, with the exception of The Martelle Bank, which we have been unable
to secure.
THE ONSLOW SAVINGS BANK.
This institution of sound finance had its beginning in Onslow, August 27, 1893,
as the private bank of J. T. Chandler and C. P. Manwaring, with a capital of
fifteen thousand dollars. Mr. Manwaring retiring, April i, 1895, J. T. Oiandler
conducted the bank alone until July i, 1901, when C. L. Niles of Anamosa and
F. J. Sokol of Onslow became proprietors. The bank continued to be a private
institution.
In September, 1901, the institution was incorporated under the state law, under
the name of The Onslow Savings Bank, the incorporators being C. L. Niles,
president; F. J. Sokol, vice-president; W. J. McCready, cashier; Nick Holtz,
Melvin Spencer, O. C. Johnston, T. B. Johnston. The capital stock was ten thou-
sand dollars. On January 4, 1909, the capital stock was increased to twenty
thousand dollars. The present officers are C. L. Niles, president; F. J. Sokol,
vice-president ; Roy C. Walters, cashier. Directors : C. L. Niles, QifFord L. Niles,
M. Spencer, F. J. Sokol, O. C. Johnston, T. B .Johnston, Paul Paulsen.
FINANCIAL CONDITION, SEPTEMBER I4, I9O4.
Loans $52,462.83
Overdrafts i»703-5S
Cash and due from banks 27,731.80
Building and fixtures 3,100.00
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Capital $10,000.00
Undivided profits 987.44
Deposits, Time 45,316.84
Deposits, Call 28,390.22
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT, AUGUST lO, I9O9.
Assets,
Bills, bonds, etc., owned by bank $i 17,333.77
Cash, drafts and checks 6,272.13
Amount in other banks, subject to draft $ 35,122.25
Overdrafts 2,809.54
Real and personal property 3,696.50
Total assets $165,234.19
Liabilities.
Capital $ 20,000.00
Sight deposits $45,836.07
Demand deposits 4,372.25
Time deposits 93»245-85 I43454.i7
Profits on hand 1,780.02
Total liabilities $165,234.19
THE MONTICELLO STATE BANK.
This institution enjoys the distinction of being the strongest bank in Jones
county. On April i, 1875, the Monticello Bank was organized under the state
law with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars. The bank continued to do
business during the twenty years of its charter, and in 1895, the charter was
renewed under the present name of The Monticello State Bank, with the same
capital of one hundred thousand dollars.
The present directors : S. S. Farwell, G. Henry George, S. E. Sarles, William
Stuhler, E. E. Hicks, John A. McLaughlin, John McDonald, O. H. Soetje.
H. M. Carpenter. Present officers: president, S. S. Farwell; vice-president,
William Stuhler; cashier, H. M. Carpenter; assistant cashier, H. S. Richardson.
COMPARATIVE DEPOSITS AND LOANS.
Deposits: July 17, 1875 (first statement), $73792; December 31, 1896.
$521,566; December 31, 1897, $591,292; 1898, $746,734; 1899, $788413; 1900,
$896,487; 1901, $1,011,113; 1902, $iJ49»935; 1903, $1,152,725; 1904, $1,155,194;
1905, $1,207,183; 1906, $1,379,586; 1907, $1,466,156; December 31, 1908,
$1,488,810.
Loans: July 17, 1875, $118,544; December 31, 1896, $562,825; December 31,
1897, $617,665; 1898, $718,908; 1899, $783,469; 1900, $845,419; 1901 $969,718;
1902, $1,116,285; 1903, $1,095,229; 1904, $1,115,703; 1905, $1,200,557; 1906.
$1,297,397: 1907, $1,294,120; December 31, 1908, $1,399787.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MAY l8, I9O9.
Assets,
Bills, bonds, etc., owned by bank $1,528,145.56
Cash, drafts and checks I5»87i45
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Amount in other banks subject to draft 153,728.30
Overdrafts 5,903.10
Real estate 17,000.00
Total assets $1,720,648.41
Liabilities.
Capital $ 100,000.00
Sight deposits $ 238,757.22
Demand deposits 76,066.92
Savings deposits i3'393-3i
Time deposits 1,081,872.58 1,410,090.03
Surplus fund 150,000.00
Profit and loss 60,558.38
Total liabilities $1,720,648.41
THE LOVELL STATE BANK OF MONTICELLO.
Next to the Monticello State Bank, the Lovell State Bank of Monticello is the
strongest banking institution in Jones county. This bank and its predecessors be-
long to a strong banking family. Beginning with the year 1878, when G. Vf. &
G. L. Lovell organized the bank, the institution has enjoyed prosperity, and the
confidence of the people in its integrity and soundness has never been questioned.
The bank of G. W. & G. L. Lovell continued as a private banking house, until
April 17. 1897, when The Lovell State Bank was organized and incorporated
under the law with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars.
The present directors : George L. Lovell, R. C. Stirton, A. L. Fairbanks, J. W.
Doxsee, Peter C Smith, J. S. Hall, C. S. Bidwell, William Schodde, W. A.
Mirick. The present officers: president, George L. Lovell; vice-president, J. S.
Hall ; cashier, R. C. Stirton ; assistant cashier, L. W. Lovell.
COMPARATIVE CAPITAL AND SURPLUS AND PROFITS, LOANS AND DEPOSITS.
Capital, surplus and profits: April 17, 1897, $100,000.00; April 17, 1898,
$106,557.79; 1899, $107,705.30; 1900, $111,450.02; 1901, $117,482.53; 1902.
$121,757.34; 1903, $128,824.01; 1904, $137,254.03; 1905, $146,762.30; 1906,
$i56,68g.95; 1907, $161,705.95; 1908, $167,861.19; 1909. $181,061.68.
Loans: April 17, 1897, $142,885.48; April 17, 1898, $303,938.27; 1899,
$351,610.42; 1900, $416,077.82; 1901, $466,121.09; 1902, $539»996.i9; ^903'
$598,516.02: 1904, $616,944.02; 1905, $621,657.58; 1906, $733,608.84; 1907,
$793,197.67; 1908, $806,407.12; 1909, $808,070.14.
Deposits: April 17, 1897, $135,830.30; April 17, 1898, $330,669.16; 1899,
$363^550.28; 1900, $392,054.29; 1901, $443,960.46; 1902, $539»9i5.38; 1903,
$574,798.41; 1904, $585,051.38; 1905, $623,773.84; 1906, $696,011.00; 1907,
$777,154.38; 1908, $795,664.53; 1909, $791,946.99.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MAY l8, I9O9.
Assets.
Bills, bonds, etc., owned by bank $817,138.02
Cash, drafts and checks 18466.42
Amount in other banks subject to draft 112439.77
Overdrafts 3>397-30
Real estate 15,851.52
Total assets $967,293.03
Liabilities,
Capital $100,000.00
Sight deposits $132,542.21
Demand deposits 24,744.62
Time deposits $629,287.28 786,574.11
Surplus 65,000.00
Profits on hand 15,718.92
Total liabilities • $967,293.03
THE OXFORD JUNCTION SAVINGS BANK.
This solid institution was organized and incorporated under the laws of Iowa,
in August, 190 1, under the name of The Oxford Junction Savings Bank, with a
capital of fifteen thousand dollars. This institution absorbed and succeeded The
Oxford Junction Bank which had been started about 1887 and operated as a private
bank by Jules Carter.
The present officers: president, George A. Wasoba; vice-presidents, Frank
Burda and H. H. Petersen ; cashier, F. H. Shimanek.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MAY l8, I9O4.
Resources.
Loans and discounts $93*362.78
Cash and due from banks 12,166.99
Overdrafts 5,068.00
Banking house and fixtures 6,832.84
Total resources $1 17,430.61
Liabilities.
Capital $ 15,000.00
Surplus and profits 1,700.71
Deposits 100,729.90
Total liabilities $1 17430.61
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MAY l8, I9O9.
Resources.
Loans and discounts $188,974.35
Cash and due from banks 27,568.78
Overdrafts 3,1 12.59
Real estate and personal property 6,300.00
Total resources $225,955.72
LiabUities.
Capital $ 15,000.00
Deposits 201,888.70
Surplus and profits 9,067.02
Total liabilities $225,955.72
Increase in deposits in five years $101,159.00
Increase in total assets in five years 118,525.00
THE CITIZENS EXCHANGE BANK, OXFORD JUNCTION.
This obliging financial house was first organized October 19, 1889, as the Ex-
change Bank, a private institution, with a capital of ten thousand dollars, L. Zeller
being the owner and proprietor. On September i, 1908, the bank was reorganized
as The Citizens Exchange Bank, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars. L.
Zeller is president, and L. F. Zeller, cashier. The bank continues to be a private
institution.
FINANCIAL CONDITION, JUNE I, I9O3. . FINANCIAL CONDITION, JUNE 8, I909.
Loans $129,954.00 Loans $157,510.00
Deposits 132,827.00 Deposits 137400.00
Capital 50,000.00 Capital 50,000.00
Surplus 7,332.00 Surplus 29,628.00
THE CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK OF OLIN.
This banking institution has enjoyed a steady growth and has tasted of the
milk and honey of prosperity since its organization on May 6, 1899. It organized
with a capital of ten thousand dollars, but in the growth and development of the
.business, the capital was soon increased to twenty thousand dollars. The first
directors : John Moreland, W. H. Crain, H. W, Flenniken, Allen Edleman, James
Snoddy, John Blahney, J. D. Saum, George SchoUman. The first officers : presi-
dent, John Moreland; vice-president, W. H. Crain; cashier, H. W. Flenniken.
The present directors: John Moreland, W. H. Crain, H. W. Flenniken, John
McMurrin, C. W. Murfield, C. J. Brickley, Gilbert Blahney, R. H. Russell, J. D.
Saiun. The present officers: president, W. H. Crain; vice-president, Gilbert
Blahney ; cashier H. W. Flenniken ; assistant cashier, Qarence Brickley.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MAY l8, I9OO.
Resources. Liabilities.
Bills receivable $29,89777 Capital $10,000.00
^^^^ • 5419-56 Individual deposits 9,582.64
Due from banks 2,580.52 ^ .^ r , .. o ^ .^
r^ . r^ ^ ^ Certificates of deposit 18,736.62
Overdrafts 29.91 ^ '^
Furniture and fixtures 728.47 Undivided profits 336.97
Total assets $38,656,23 Total liabilities $38,656.23
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MAY l8, I909.
Assets.
Bills, bonds, etc., owned by bank $96,146.36
Cash, drafts and checks 5.912.89
Amount in other banks subject to draft 16.305.60
Overdrafts 4,952.92
Real and personal property 4,085.97
Total assets $127,403.74
Liabilities.
Capital $20,000.00
Sight deposits $44,832.62
Time deposits 53,485.20 98,317.82
Profits on hand 9,085.92
Total liabilities $127,403.74
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OLIN.
This is the youngest bank in Olin, and has already become a very active
and healthy infant institution. The bank was organized and chartered under the
Federal banking laws, February i, 1905, with a capital of twenty-five thousand
dollars, and the following directors: George L. Schoonover, Park Chamberlain,
George W. Huber, M. H. Crissman, L. M. Carpenter, H. D. Miller, W. T.
Shaw and H. D. Myrick. The officers were : president, George L. Schoonover ;
vice-president, George W. Huber; cashier, M. H. Crissman.
The present directors: L. M. Carpenter, George L. Schoonover. Park
Chamberlain, C. E. Walston, H. D. Miller, M. H. Crissman. The present offi-
cers: president, George L. Schoonover; vice-president, L. M. Carpenter; cashier,
M. H. Crissman.
This is one of the three national banks in the county, and is the latest one
to receive a charter. It has enjoyed a steady growth and is today one of the
flourishing banking institutions of our county.
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FIRST FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MARCH I4TH, I905.
Resources.
Loans and discounts $19,748.45
U. S. bonds 6,250.00
Premium on U. S 296.88
Bonds and securities 379-50
Furniture and fixtures 585.00
Expenses paid 37^-77
Due from National banks, not reserve agents 14,974.70
Due from reserve agents 20,164.40
Cash on hand 7,420.32
Total resources $70,191.02
Liabilities,
Capital $25,000.00
National bank notes outstanding 6,250.00
Deposits 38,941.02
Total liabilities $70,191.02
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, APRIL 28, I9O9.
Resources,
Loans and discounts $89,888.73
Overdrafts 5»993-89
U. S. and other bonds and premium 37,364.20
Real and personal property 12,500.00
Due from National banks not reserve agents 10,026.91
Due from reserve agents 16,699.73
Cash, five per cent fund, and reserve cash 8,671.08
Total resources $181,144.49
Liabilities,
Capital $ 25,000.00
Surplus and undivided profits 6,849.66
Circulation $ 25,000.00
Deposits 124,294.83
Total liabilities $181,144.49
THE farmer's SAVINGS BANK OF MARTfeLLE.
The youngest bank in the county is the Farmers Savings Bank of Mar-
telle, and its last financial statement shows that it is a strong and vigorous
infant. Its organization became a matter of record December 12, 1908, with
a capital stock of ten thousand dollars. The stockholders are farmers with but
few exceptions. The directors are Frank Hoffman, C. J. Murfield, Abner
Lacock, A. J. Baird, S. C. Batchelder, J. E. Barner, A. R. Weaver. The officers
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are: president, Frank Hoffman; vice-president, C. J. Murfield; cashier, C. H.
Brown.
This institution is so young in years, that no comparative statement of its
financial condition is necessary.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF AUGUST ID, I909.
Assets,
Bills, bonds, etc., owned by bank $37,981.50
Cash, drafts and checks 2,137.56
Amount in other banks subject to draft 4,800.47
Overdrafts and expense account 756.65
Real and personal property 4,637.91
Total assets $50,314.09
Liabilities.
Capital $10,000.00
Sight deposits $1 1,018.85
Demand deposits 601.86
Time deposits $28,693.38 $40,314.09
Total liabilities $50,314.09
THE CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK OF ANAMOSA.
A bank that has seemed to meet with success from the start is the Citizens
Savings Bank of Anamosa. With the exception of the Farmers Bank at Martelle,
it is the youngest bank in the county. This institution was incorporated Nov-
ember 8, 1906, by W. A. Cunningham, William Thomas, H. Hellberg, Sr., C. H.
Anderson, E. K. Ray and B. E. Rhinehart. The first directors: W. A. Cunning-
ham, William Thomas, C. H. Anderson, H. Hellberg, Sr., Dr. A. G. Hejinian,
William T. Shaw and E. K. Ray. First officers: president, W. A. Cunningham;
vic2 president, William Thomas ; cashier, E. K. Ray. The new bank opened for
business March 14, 1907, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars. The present
directors: W. A. Cunningham, William Thomas, A. G. Hejinian, L. G. Ray,
J. A. Belknap, E. K. Ray, W. F. Hellberg. Present officers: president, W. A.
Cunningham; vice-president, William Thomas; cashier, E. K. Ray; assistant
cashier, W. F. Hellberg.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MAY l8, I9O9.
Assets,
Bills, bonds, etc., owned by bank $96,601.48
Cash, drafts and checks 14,133.41
Amount in other banks subject to draft 46,518.61
Overdrafts 807.87
Real and personal property 14,700.56
Total assets $172,761.93
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Liabilities.
Capital $ 50,000.00
Sight deposits $39,236.71
Demand deposits 1,225.00
Time deposits 82,101.78 $122,563.49
Profits on hand 19844
Total liabilities $172,761.93
NILES AND WAITERS SAVINGS BANK, ANAMOSA.
This flourishing banking institution had its origin as a National bank which
was organized in 1871, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. H. C.
Metcalf was president, and T. W. Shapley, cashier. The directors were: H. C.
Metcalf, C. L. Niles, John Watters, George Watters, Dr. E. Blakeslee, John
McKean, J. C. Deitz, T. W. Shapley, C. H. Lull.
In 1879, ^^^ National Bank surrendered its charter and the bank was then
conducted as a private institution by H. C. Metcalf, and the following year, C. L.
Niles and George and John Watters, organized under the name of Niles and
Watters, private bankers, succeeding H. C. Metcalf, with a capital of twenty
thousand dollars.
The Niles and Watters bank continued until February 1905, when the bank
was organized under the state law as Niles & Watters Savings Bank with a capi-
tal stock of fifty thousand dollars with the following officers and directors:
president, C. L. Niles; vice-presidents, QiflFord L. Niles and T. W. Shapley;
cashier, T. E. Watters; William M. Byerly, John McDonald, George Watters,
John Watters. The present officers and directors are: president, C. L. Niles;
vice-presidents, Clifford L. Niles and T. W. Shapley ; cashier, T. E. Watters ; as-
sistant cashier, F. J. Cunningham ; directors, C. L. Niles, Qifford L. Niles, Geo.
Watters, John McDonald, T. C. Gorman, T. W. Shapley and J. E. Remley.
FINANCIAL CONDITION ON AUGUST lO, 1899.
Capital stock $ 25,000.00
Deposits 328,800.00
Surplus 6,000.00
Cash and due from banks 115,000.00
Loans arid discounts 235,000.00
Furniture and fixtures 365.00
FINANCIAL CONDITION, AUGUST lO, I9O9.
Assets.
Cash and drafts, etc $ 21,461.07
Bills, bonds, etc., owned by bank 531,906.1 1
Subject to be drawn from other banks 129,514.73
Overdrafts 4,167.26
Value of personal property 3,500.00
Total assets $690,549.17
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Liabilities,
Capital stock $ 50,000.00
Deposits, sight, demand and time 605,272.92
Surplus fund and undivided profits 35,276.25
Total liabilities $690,549.17
THE ANAMOSA NATIONAL BANK.
This splendid and reliable banking institution is the natural successor of the
banking business which had its beginning in the copartnership formed December
26, 1873, between William T. Shaw, Lawrence Schoonover, James A. Bell and Ed-
gar M. Condit, under the firm name of Shaw, Schoonover & Company, with a
capital of twenty thousand dollars. Messrs. Condit and Bell later disposed of
their interests to the remaining members of the firm, and the banking business
was continued under the name of Shaw & Schoonover until 1894, when Colonel
Shaw retired, and Mr. Schoonover continued the business individually until Jan-
uary, 1897.
The Anamosa National Bank was incorporated in 1892 by Charles H. Lull,
John Z. Lull, W. N. Dearborn, C. S. Millard and others, and in 1897, this bank,
and the institution operated by Mr. Schoonover, was consolidated, the new in-
stitution taking the name of The Anamosa National Bank, with Mr. Schoonover
as president, which office he held until his death in 1907. At that time the pres-
ent incumbent of the presidency, George I-. Schoonover was elected.
Park Chamberlain who had become associated with the bank as vice-president,
in January, 1907, was elected cashier in March of the same year to succeed
George L. Schoonover. Mr. Chamberlain remains in the bank in this capacity,
and with his legal education and knowledge of men and business methods, is a
splendid man for the place. Joseph N. Ramsey has been the assistant cashier
of the bank since July, 1904. W. N. Dearborn is vice-president of the bank.
In July, 1905, the capital stock of the Anamosa National Bank was increased
to one hundred thousand dollars, and it has easily maintained its position as the
largest National bank in the county, both as regards capital and deposits.
In April, 1907, the management of the Anamosa National Bank organized
the Schoonover Trust Company, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, for the
purpose of carrying on a more extensive mortgage and trust business, and the
Trust Company, the first and only one in the county, has gradually taken a po-
sition peculiar to itself among the financial institutions of the county. The Na-
tional Bank directors are : George L. Schoonover, Grace Schoonover, W. N.
Dearborn, H. F. Dearborn, H. W. Sigworth, F. O. Ellison, J. N. Ramsey, Park
Chamberlain and J. E. Tyler.
The appended table, giving a comparative statement, showing the growth of
these institutions since 1899, shows the increase in assets to be 118 per cent in
the last decade.
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Resources.
1899 1909.
Anamosa National Bank. Bank & Trust Co.
Loans and discounts *. . .$280,706.38 $684,631.06
United States bonds 28,000.00 100,000.00
Cash and due from banks 104,973.54 110,022.91
Real estate 0.00 1 1,173.81
$413,679.92 $905,827.78
Liabilities.
Capital stock, paid in $ 50,000.00 $150,000.00
Suq>lus and undivided profits 2,581.62 29,299.73
Circulation 25,000.00 100,000.00
Deposits 335*898.30 626,528.05
$413,679.92 $905,827.78
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WYOMING.
This is the oldest National Bank in the county that is yet doing business without
any change in its form of -charter. The bank was organized January 26, 1872,
by F. D. Hodgeman, W. T. Foote, John K. Pixley and others. The first directors
were: Stephen Hamilton, Thomas Green, William H. Holmes, Whitney J. Brain-
ard, Hiram Smith, John K. Pixley and Josiah W. Sloan The first officers:
Hiram Smith, president; W. T. Foote, vice-president; John K. Pixley, cashier.
This bank was the natural successor to the private bank of Butterick & Schultz.
The present directors: A. M. Loomis, A. A. Vaughn, John T. Wherry, W. I.
Chamberlain, W. H. Tourtellot, Fred'k H. Foote. The present officers : Fred'k
H. Foote, president; A. M. Loomis, vice-president; A. A. Vaughn, cashier; Jas.
S. Robertson, assistant cashier.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, SEPTEMBER 5, I9O3.
Resotirces.
Loans and discounts $207,323.75
Overdrafts 1 1,259.14
U. S. bonds 25,000.00
Stocks and securities 36,105.00
Banking house and personal property 5,000.00
Due from banks 61,658.09
Cash, cash items and checks 20,622.02
Redemption fund, U. S. treasurer 1,250.00
Total resources $368,218.00
Liabilities.
Capital $ 50,000.00
Surplus and undivided profits 22,712.09
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Circulation, secured by U. S. bonds 25,000.00
Deposits 270,505.91
Total liabilities $368,218.00
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, SEPTEMBER I, I9O9.
Resources,
Loans and discounts $288,074.03
Overdrafts 2,252.27
U. S. bonds 25,000.00
Bonds and securities 4,280.00
Banking house, real estate and personal property 5,500.00
Due from banks 27442.99
Cash, checks and cash items 19,521.17
Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer 1,250.00
Total resources $373,320.46
Liabilities.
Capital $ 50,000.00
Surplus and profits 28,712.81
Circulation, secured by U. S. bonds 25,000.00
Sight deposits $ 65,113.85
Demand deposits 18,052.05
Time deposits 186,441.75 269,607.65
Total liabilities $373,32046
THE CITIZENS BANK OF WYOMING.
This private financial institution has not had the advantage of succeeding
aome other institution similar in character, in order to have had a start when its
doors were open for business, but nevertheless, its growth and development speaks
in tones of praise of the confidence and regard the people have had for the man-
agement since its organization. Its doors were opened October 25, 1894, with a
cash capital of twenty thousand dollars, C. J. Ingwersen was president, and P. S.
Jansen, cashier. The institution has enjoyed a good patronage, and the bank is
very generally regarded as one of the safe and sound banks in the county. The
bank is patronized to quite an extent by the German farmers and stock raisers,
although the patronage extends to and includes all classes.
The Citizens Bank continues to be conducted as a private institution. Hans
Jansen is president and P. S. Jansen, cashier; Chris J. Ingwersen is assistant
cashier. In November, 1899, the bank deposits amounted to eighty one thousand
dollars.
STATEMENT OF CONDITION, SEPTEMBER I, I9O9.
Capital $ 20,000.00
Deposits 221,000.00
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Loans and discounts - 180,000.00
Cash and due from banks 60,000.00
The following table showing the live stock receipts for stock shipped to Chi-
cago, the money of which was received by the Citizens Bank during the past
thirteen years, gives some idea of the volume of business which passes through
this institution, as well as giving some idea of the stock prepared for market in
this locality, although it does not include all the stock shipped out of Wyoming
and the surrounding territory.
Year ending
October 31, 1897 — 158 cars cattle, 114 cars hogs — 272 cars $ 224,010.84
October 31, 1898 — 135 cars cattle, 127 cars hogs — 262 cars 223,178.85
October 31, 1899 — ^68 cars cattle, 122 cars hogs — ^290 cars 279,284.41
October 31, 1900 — 175 cars cattle, 158 cars hogs — 333 cars 324,688.51
October 31, 1901 — 186 cars cattle, 176 cars hogs — 362 cars 383,008.19
October 31, 1902 — 163 cars cattle, 188 cars hogs — 351 cars 445412.23
October 31, 1903 — 190 cars cattle, 146 cars hogs — ^336 cars 379,667.71
October 31, 1904 — 193 cars cattle, 154 cars hogs — 347 cars 353,480.10
October 31, 1905 — ^207 cars cattle, 168 cars hogs — 375 cars 382,745.19
October 31, 1906 — 181 cars cattle, 173 cars hogs — ^354 cars 381,512.59
October 31, 1907 — 210 cars cattle, 174 cars hogs — 384 cars 465,215.28
October 31, 1908 — 141 cars cattle, 149 cars hogs — ^290 cars ^93,449-36
October 31, 1909 — 142 cars cattle, 1 14 cars hogs — 256 cars 323,717.06
Total 13 years.. 2,249 1*963 4,2 12 $4,459,370.32
RAILROADS.
The first railroad in Iowa was commenced in 1854. Previous to that time, the
struggle for a railroad had begun in Jones county. On May 2, 1852, there had
been incorporated the Iowa Central Air Line Company, an organization which
for a number of years figured quite conspicuously in Central Iowa, and which
because of its "air" the Jones county people have abundant cause to remember.
This company was incorporated at the date named, by the following persons,
most of whom were Iowa men : Jonas Clark, John E. Goodnow, J. W. Jenkins,
Russel Perham, Alonzo Spaulding, Elisha F. Clark, Daniel Rhodes, David
Sears, Ira Minard, Charles Butler, Elisha C. Littlefield, G. S. Hubbard, S. S
Jones, S. M. Hitt, George W. Waite, William Ferdman, L. H. Bowen. O. Emer-
son, George Greene, A. F. Steadman, D. M. Mcintosh, Isaac Whittam, N. B
Brown, S. D. Carpenter, D. W. King, N. W. Isbell, Charles Nye, Thomas J
McKean, L. D. Jordan, E. Vanmeter, Dan Lothian, M. E. McKenney, S. C.
Sever, William Haddock, J. H. Fisher, H. C. Metcalf, W. H. Eldridge, Porter
Sargeant, E. A. Wood.
The purpose of the corporation, as set forth in the articles, was "the con-
struction, operation and use of a railroad with double or single track, and with
all necessary appendages, branches and extensions. The main trunk or con-
tinuous line of said road was to commence on the Mississippi, at or near Sabula,
and run thence westerly on or near the forty-second parallel of latitude to the
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Missouri River, and thence westerly, ultimately through the South Pass to Cali-
fornia."
The stock of the air line company was to be ten million dollars, with the
privilege of increasing it. A survey was made through to the Missouri River,
passing through Maquoketa, Anamosa, Marion, Cedar Rapids, Marshalltown,
and crossing the Missouri River just west of Onawa. Negotiations were opened
up for a land grant and not much else was done for several years. An act of
congress, of May 15, 1856, granted to the state of Iowa upward of three million
acres of government lands, to be expended in building railroads. The act pro-
vided to give a company building a road from Lyons to a point at or near Ma-
quoketa, and thence west on the line of the air line road to the Missouri River,
every alternate section designated by odd numbers within six miles on either
side of the line of road, and where the land within this distance was already
sold or preempted, the state was to select an equivalent amount of land within
fifteen miles on either side of the road.
The grant from the legislature to the Iowa Central Air Line Company pro-
vided that the line should be definitely fixed and located before April i, 1857, ^°^
that if the road did not have seventy-five miles completed prior to December i,
1859, or did not have the road completed before December i, 1865, that all un-
sold lands should revert to the state.
The land grant to this and other roads gave a tremendous impetus to railroad
building in Iowa for several years. The land grant to the air line company alone
was estimated by its president at nine hundred and six thousand, four hundred
and eighty acres. The report of June 2, 1858, represents one million, two
hundred and ten thousand dollars as already expended upon the road, most of
which was disbursed in securing the lands of the company.
The projected line was to cross Jones county, passing through both Wyom-
ing and Anamosa. The county in its corporate capacity was called upon for
help, and before the land grant had been secured, in June, 1853, almost immedi-
ately after the formation of the company, a petition was presented to the county
judge, asking for a vote subscribing eighty thousand dollars stock in the new
company, to be paid in county bonds drawing eight per cent interest. These
bonds were to be liquidated by an annual tax of one per cent. The pro|X)sition
was carried by a vote of four hundred and fifty-nine to two hundred and forty.
The stock was not subscribed, however, nor the bonds issued until June 15,
1856, following the congressional land grant, nor were the bonds delivered even
at that time. December 25, 1856, an agreement was entered into between G. C
Mudgett, county judge, and S. S. Jones, president of the air line company, pro-
viding that the bonds should be issued only so rapidly as the work was carried
on in the limits of the county of Jones.
At that time, the stock of the railroad company was above par, and it was
agreed on the part of the corporation, that if the county should relinquish all
right to the dividend upon the stock of the company, that the latter would agree
to pay the interest upon the county's bonds. This would simply amount to the
county of Jones lending her name as security to the railroad, which in the rose-
ate hue hanging over railroad prospects, was a very small favor. Stock of the
company, to be held in trust for the county, was immediately delivered to three
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trustees — N. G. Sales, of Anamosa; Robert Smythe, of Marion and Jas. Haz-
lett, Jr., of Lyons.
Under this agreement, the work of grading was immediately commenced in
Jones county, and, in a short time, fifty-four thousand dollars of county bonds
had been issued. This graded roadbed can yet be easily located.
It is a well known fact that the air line company failed on account of reckless
management and open rascality on the part of the president and other officers.
The magnificent land grant of the company was of itself sufficient to have com-
pleted the enterprise to the Missouri River, and the company would also have
received cordial help from cities and citizens all along the line. Nothing was
done. The affair was a suicide. December i, 1859, the time when the road
should have seventy-five miles of road completed or forfeit the grant, came
around, and not a mile of iron had been laid, and the magnificent gift of the
government passed into the hands of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River
Railroad.
Of course the air line company never paid a cent of interest upon the bonds
of the county. Suits were entered in the United States court by bondholders
against the county of Jones in default of the payment of interest. The plain-
tiflF secured judgment.
Forty-six of the fifty-four thousand dollars bonds were held by David J.
Lake of Chicago. In May, 1865, a compromise was affected by the county's pay-
ing Lake seventy-five cents on the dollar due, principal arid interest. Six thou-
sand more were redeemed about the same time from other parties at nearly the
same rate. One bond, held by G. W. Bettesworth, was settled by the pa)mient
of one thousand, nine hundred and twenty dollars and seventy cents principal
and interest, on the part of the county, while Bettesworth surrendered the bond
and conveyed four thousand, five hundred and ninety acres of land to Jones
county, which afterward sold at such a figure as to prove a good investment.
The fifty-fourth bond was cancelled some years later.
About 1852, there was projected a road from Dubuque to Keokuk, by way
of Anamosa, Marion and Iowa City. This departure from the direct line gave
to the enterprise the vulgar name of the "Rams-Horn." An incorporation was
formed, with the Langworthys of Dubuque, Lincoln Qark and W. T. Shaw
among the leaders. This road, as originally laid out, proved a failure, but along
part of its line was built the Dubuque Western.
On the occasion of the completion of this road to Anamosa, the following
notice of it appears in the Anamosa Eureka:
"Friday evening, 9th of March, year of grace i860, was a joyous time in
Anamosa.
"Punctual as lovers to the moment sworn and punctual to the hour of 8
o'clock, came the first train of cars from Dubuque. A crowd was at the depot,
and the welcome was deep and cordial.
"The road was commenced in July, 1857. In October following, came the
revulsion throughout the country; but the work continued through the winter,
and subsequently struggled on, now and then, amid the trying stringency of the
money market until last autumn, when by a money arrangement with C. W. Theo.
Krausch, the late chief engineer of the New York Erie Railroad, the entire su-
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perintendency was transferred to him, and most nobly has he performed his
task, proving his high competency as a railroad builder and manager.
"Prominent among the men to whom we are indebted for this great and glori-
ous work, we are bound to accord all honor to L. H. Langworthy, F. S. Winslow,
W. A. Wiltse. E. Stimson, H. Gelpocke, and C. W. Theo. Krausch of Dubuque,
with W. T. Shaw of Anamosa. Others, too, have aided us most effectively in
the trying hours of the past two years. To Mr. Shaw we at this end of the line
are largely indebted. His cool and ready clear-sightedness, as a liberal stock-
holder and director from the beginning, has contributed, in a great measure, to
the success of the project."
At the time of the breaking out of the war, the road was being pushed west-
ward toward Marion, and W. T. Shaw was superintending the construction.
On the day Mr. Shaw received his commission as colonel of an Iowa regiment,
he dismissed the men he had employed, and abruptly as Putnam left the plow,
proceeded to the field in the service of his country. The building of the road
was at a standstill for several years, and was not completed to Marion until about
1865. The present terminus of the road is Cedar Rapids, though connections
are made with other lines.
Ten thousand dollars in bonds of the city of Anamosa were voted to aid the
Dubuque Western road in building, but only a fraction of these were ever issued.
Farmers and citizens along the line aided liberally by subscription.
The road has several times changed hands and names, passing into possession
of bondholders, and in 1878, to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Company. It has been known by the names of Dubuque Western; Du-
buque, Marion & Western; the Dubuque & South Western, and finally, as a
part of the Western Union division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul.
It should have been stated, in connection w^ith the early history of this road,
that on May 9, 1857, the question of taking one hundred thousand dollars stock,
by issuing county bonds to that amount, was submitted to the people, and lost by
a vote of five hundred and sixty-seven to eight hundred and twenty-eight. A
similar proposition was defeated in August of the same year, by a vote of seven
hundred and sixteen to three hundred and sixty-eight.
A speaker in a public gathering in later years in giving reminiscences of the
days of the Dubuque & Southwestern Railroad, stated that by common consent
the initials of the road (D. S. W. R. R.) stood for the phrase *'Damn Slow Way
Riding Round." Other equally ludicrous and vulgar phrases were heaped upon
the young and struggling railroad.
Quite a number of railroads projected in Jones county existed only on paper,
and, except as companies or paper corporations, had no existence at all. Among
the first of these, one was formed to build a road from Cascade to Anamosa, to
connect at the fo'-mer place with the great Northwestern Railroad projected
through tiiat point. A meeting was held December 9, 1856, at which articles of
incorporation were adopted and the following persons elected a board of
directors: S. W, McMaster, John Lorain, L. C. McKinney, A. S. Chew, S. S.
^^errill. G. W. Trumbull, T. J. Chew, James Hill, William P. Wightman, W. S.
Hall, X. G. Sales, Joseph Mann, C. L. D. Crockwell. The road was never begun,
and the corporation soon collapsed.
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With greater pretensions was organized, March 19, 1857, the Wapsipinicon
& St. Peters Valley Railroad Company, whose purpose was to build a continuous
line of road, to commence at Anamosa and run thence northwest through Quas-
queton, Independence and Fairbanks, and thence northwesterly to the north line
of the state. The capital stock was fixed at five million dollars.
This was intended as a feeder to the air line route, and was looked upon as
a very probable enterprise in the palmy days of the air line bubble. The people
were given an opportunity, in May, 1857, to decide whether the county in its
corporate capacity, should take one hundred thousand dollars stock in the Wapsi-
pinicon & St. Peters Valley Railroad. The voters very decidedly said nay, the
scheme being defeated by a vote of one thousand and sixty-seven to three hun-
dred and seventy-five.
The first officers of the company were : D. S. Davis, president ; Wm. H. Gibbs,
vice president; E. C. Bidwell, secretary; H. P. Henshaw, treasurer; D. S. Lee,
attorney ; directors — F. C. Patterson, Ruf us Connable, P. A. Brooks, L. W. Hart,
S. V. Thompson, N. G. Sales, G. H. Ford, J. S. Dimmitt.
January 12, 1859, were adopted articles of association of what was called
the "Anamosa Branch of the Tipton Railway," for the purpose of building a
branch to Tipton. The five directors chosen were : Wm. T. Shaw, David Graham,
and H. C. Metcalf of Anamosa, O. Cronkhite and D. A. Carpenter of Rome.
The partly graded road-bed, between Lyons and Maquoketa, of the exploded
air line road, found its way into the Mississippi, Maquoketa & Western Company.
In March, 1870, the Midland Company was organized at Des Moines, to build
a road from Clinton to Maquoketa, with the probability that it would go farther
west. The Mississippi, Maquoketa & Western sold the road-bed and franchise
to the Midland for eighteen thousand dollars. The cars were running into Ma-
quoketa in December, 1870. A fortunate rivalry springing up between the Chi-
cago & Northwestern, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago, Mil-
waukee & St. Paul, enlisted the cordial support of the first named road to the
Midland. William T. Shaw was president until March, 1871, at which time the
road passed under complete control of the Chicago & Northwestern Company,
though a separate organization was still maintained. The road was immediately
pushed on from Maquoketa to Anamosa, being completed to the latter place in
October, 1871. The citizens of the latter place subscribed about thirty-five thou-
sand dollars in stock, though little was paid, and Fairview township voted to
its aid a three per cent, tax, amounting to nearly fifteen thousand dollars.
The Sabula, Ackley & Dakota Railroad was projected especially by the citi-
zens of Ackley and Sabula, and was designed as a western branch to connect
with the Western Union road at Savanna, Illinois. The building of the road
commenced in 1870. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, jealous of the progress
of the Midland road, lent its aid to the building of the Sabula, Ackley & Dakota
enterprise. A bitter rivalry sprang up between the two enterprises, and each did
what they could to hinder the progress of the other. The Northwestern came
out first in the race, at least so far as the building of the road is concerned. When
the cars were running into Anamosa over the Midland, the western terminus of
the Sabula road was at Preston, only about twenty miles from its starting point.
In the summer of 1872, the road was completed to Rome, in Jones county. The
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western terminus of the road, which now belongs to the Western Union division
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Company, was Cedar Rapids. The road
traverses the southern tier of townships of Jones county, passing through a fer-
tile agricultural country.
The Davenport & St. Paul Railroad, was a Davenport enterprise, whose chief
spirit was its president, Hon. Hiram Price. This road passes through Wyom-
ing and terminates at Monticello. Cascade made a determined effort to secure
the road from Wyoming to that point, but in vain. The cars over this line were
running into Wyoming, December 22, 187 1. The road was later purchased by
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Company, and the line extended north giving
direct connections with St. Paul. The corporation, therefore, owns and
operates three lines of road traversing Jones county, viz., the Sabula, Ackley &
Dakota, now called the C. & C. B. Division with 25.54 miles of road. The Daven-
port & Northwestern, with 27.67 miles of road, and the Dubuque & Southwest-
em with 19,78 miles of road, in all a total of 72.99 miles of road in Jones
county.
In April, 1868, a company was organized under the name of the Anamosa &
Northwestern Railroad Company, whose object was to build a road from Ana-
mosa northwest, along the Wapsipinicon Valley, to the northern boundary of
the state. The incorporators were James Jamison, James Ironside, R. N. Soper,
F. Braun, William T. Shaw, J. S. Stacy, D. S. Lee,. C. R. Scott, Charles E. Kent,
J. H. Fairchild, E. C. Downs, A. Hunsicker, C. W. Hastings, H. J. White, M.
McGlatherty.
The interest which might have been enlisted in this enterprise was directed
into other channels by new and unexpected developments in railroad building,
about this time. The project, therefore, was unsuccessful.
Following this effort at railroad building, there was a season of comparative
quiet which continued for a period of about thirty-five years.
On December 21, 1903, the Chicago, Anamosa & Northern Railroad was or-
ganized, with a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, supplied
largely by Dubuque capitalists and assisted with Anamosa capital. The road
was constructed within a short time from Anamosa to Coggon a distance of
twenty miles. It is proposed to continue the road to Waterloo during 1910. The
new company has leased the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company for a mile and a half out of Anamosa, and also the terminal and tracks
in Anamosa. At the present time, the C. A. & N. company own no equipment,
but by contract, the company has the use of an engine, a combination coach, a
flat car and a box car, property of the Glasser Equipment Company of Dubuque.
This road has been found to be a great convenience to the people, as well as
a safe investment for the company. During the year ending June 30, 1909, the
total revenue from the road was eighteen thousand, four hundred and fifty-two
dollars and thirty-two cents, and the total operating expenses for the same
period, even a thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and fourteen
cents, leaving a balance of six thousand, five hundred and eighty-one dollars and
eighteen cents on the right side of the ledger.
The present officers of the company are: president, Henry. Kiene, Dubuque;
vice president, D. C. Glasser, Dubuque ; secretary, T. W. Ruete, Dubuque ; trea-
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surer, C. H. Eigheney, Dubuque ; assistant treasurer, Paul Kiene, Anamosa ; au-
ditor, Clifford L. Niles, Anamosa ; general manager, J. L. Kdsey, Anamosa.
MILEAGE AND ASSESSED VALUATION OF RAILROADS IN JONES COUNTY.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY.
The number of miles of railroad of each company whose lines pass through
Jones county, and their valuation and assessed valuation as fixed by the board
of supervisors of Jones county for 1909, is herewith given:
C. & C. B. Division, 25.54 miles. Assessed Valuation $11,035 P^^ Mile.
Miles. Valuation.
Oxford township 5.93 $65437.55
Oxford Junction 55 6,069.25
Hale township 641 70,734-35
Rome township 545 60,140.75
Olin 1.08 11,917.80
Greenfield township 542 59,809.70
Martelle 70 7,724.50
Dub. & S. W. 19.78 Miles. Assessed Valuation $4,000 per Mile.
Miles. Valuation.
Fairview township 4.27 $17,080.00
Anamosa 1.74 6,960.00
Cass township 3.75 15,000.00
Wayne township 3.70 14,800.00
Lovell township 5.05 20,200.00
Monticello f 1.27 5,080.00
Dav. & N. W. 27.67 Miles. Assessed Valuation $4,000 per Mile.
Miles. Valuation.
Oxford township 6.99 $27,960.00
Oxford Junction 64 2,560.00
Wyoming township 2.46 9,840.00
Wyoming City 58 2,320.00
Madison township 4.94 19,360.00
Center Junction 75 2,920.00
Scotch. Grove township 5.55 22,200.00
Wayne township 1.59 6,360.00
Lovell township 3.28 ^ 13,120.00
Monticdlo i.oi 4,040.00
C. &. N. W. 22.98 Miles Assessed Valuation $4,100 per Mile.
Miles. Valuation.
Onslow 37 $ 1,517.00
Wyoming township 6.29 25,789.00
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Madison township 5.37 22,oijjoo
Center Junction 73 3,075.00
Wayne township 3.22 13,202.00
Jackson township 3.40 13,940.00
Fairview township 2.67 10,947.00
Anamosa 93 3,813.00
C. A. & N. 4.77 Miles Assessed Valuation $3,000 per Mile.
Miles. Valuation.
Anamosa 03 $ 90.00
Cass township 4.74 14,220.00
THE JONES COUNTY CALF CASE.
The prodigal calf has had a great deal to do with making Jones county fa-
mous. From the stormy shores of the Atlantic to the tranquil beach of the Pa-
cific, and from the cold borders on the north to the bahny clime on the south,
the Jones county calf case, has been heard of, and discussed.
Robert Johnson, the present mayor of Anamosa, was the principal party in
this prolonged and expensive litigation which began in 1874 and continued for
over twenty years. A history of this famous case is worthy of a place in the
pages of this volume, and the same is herewith given.
Four calves the market value of which was twenty-five dollars, were the
cause of the greatest lawsuit in the history of American jurisprudence. The
litigation started by their sale extended over a period of twenty years, was tried
in seven different counties before one hundred and fourteen jurors, was four
times appealed to the supreme court of the state, entailing fees amounting to
seventy-five thousand dollars for an army of lawyers, and concluded with a final
judgment for one thousand dollars and court costs, amounting to two thousand,
eight hundred and eighty-six dollars, and eighty-four cents.
This litigation — ^a monument to the cost at which legal redress may be se-
cured by a persistent litigant — is known as the "Jones County Calf Case,"* from
Jones county, Iowa.
Robert Johnson, of Anamosa, to vindicate himself of a criminal charge pre-
ferred against him by a **Horse Thief association" of pioneer days, fought
through this long period against seven opponents. Since the conclusion of the
case five of the defendants have died without property and two are yet alive, but'
have never gained a foothold since the famous lawsuit consumed their wealth.
Johnson has prospered, but by strange destiny of fate in his every enterprise he
must cross swords with the opponents in his long legal duel. When he became
a candidate for mayor of his city last spring, fifteen years after the settlement of
the suit, his opponent was B. H. Miller, a relative of one of the defendants in
the twenty years' litigation. Johnson's record in the "Calf Case" for being a
persistent fighter together with a platform for strict law enforcement and a moral
city, won him the election. He is mayor today.
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WKEELER EARLY IN THE CASE.
C. E. Wheeler, of Cedar Rapids, as a young law graduate of Notre Dame,
received his first retainer from Robert Johnson. He made his maiden speech in
the **Calf Case" and remained in the litigation from beginning to end. He won
his victory after opposing before the juries such brilliant orators as Ex-Governor
Horace Boies, of Waterloo. When final judgment was rendered he was a gray-
haired old man and a lawyer of experience.
In the early days of Iowa, Robert Johnson was a stock buyer in Jones county.
In June, 1874, he sold to S. D. Potter in Greene county fifty head of calves. A
short time later John Foreman, one of his neighbors asserted that four of the
calves belonged to him, and in a Green county justice court, by replevin pro-
ceedings, recovered their possession. To reimburse Mr. Potter for the value of
the calves Mr. Johnson gave him his note. He explained that he had bought the
animals from a stranger who gave the name of Smith. In a country store at
Olin, the proprietor and several loungers heard the bargain made between John-
son and the stranger. Shortly after this proceeding an indictment was returned
in Jones county against Johnson, charging him with having stolen the four calves.
Johnson and a brother then went to Greene county and had Potter point out the
four claimed by Foreman. They proved to be high-grade calves, whereas John-
son had bought scrubs of Smith. Then Johnson discovered for the first time
that he had not handled the Foreman calves at all and began to believe he was
the scapegoat for another's crime. He refused to pay the note he had given
Potter, on the ground there was no consideration. Suit was commenced against
him in justice court, and after a long and expensive litigation Johnson was de-
feated and had to pay the note, on the ground it was in the hands of an innocent
purchaser.
When he was indicted Mr. Johnson filed a motion to quash because of a de-
fect. The prosecution of Johnson was prompted by an organization of those
early days known as the "Horse Thief association," perfected as a protection
against the prevailing wholesale stealing of stock. A few days before the court
gave consideration to this motion Johnson found on his horse block near his
home a note, accompanying a piece of rope tied in a hangman's knot. It read:
"In view of the present indictment we understand that you calculate to have
the indictment set aside. We advise you to appear and be tried under the in-
dictment with the defect, if any exists or take the lamented Greeley's advice and
go west, or take this — "
WE, THE COMMITTEE.
Johnson was a fearless man. He pursued his motion. The indictment was
quashed. Another was returned. A change of venue was taken to Cedar county.
He was tried and the jury disagreed by a vote of eleven for acquittal and one
for conviction. Then one night his house and barn were mysteriously burned
to the ground. He was tried a second time and acquitted.
MALTCIOUS PROSECUTION SUIT OPENS.
Johnson determined to have revenge and vindication. He gathered informa-
tion concerning the membership of the *'Horse Thief association," and on May
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23, 1878, started suit in Jones county for malicious prosecution, demanding ten
thousand dollars damages from E. V. Miller, David Fall, George W. MiUer, Abe
Miller, John Foreman, S. D. Potter and Herman Keller. A change of venue
was taken by the defendants to Linn county, and from there a change was taken
to Benton county. The case was tried here first with a disagreement of the jury,
It was tried a second time and Johnson recovered a verdict of three thousand dol-
lars. The court set the verdict aside. A change of venue was then taken to
Clinton county. At the conclusion of the trial there, Johnson secured a verdict
for seven thousand dollars. The court set that verdict aside. A change of venue
was then taken to Blackhawk county. There Johnson again won. This time
the jury said he would have five thousand dollars. From this verdict the defend-
ants appealed to the supreme court of Iowa and the case was reversed. On the
next trial in Blackhawk county, Johnson was awarded, by the jury, a verdict for
six thousand dollars. From this the defendants appealed to the supreme court
and again the case was reversed by this highest tribunal. On the last trial in
Blackhawk county Johnson recovered a verdict for one thousand dollars against
six of the defendants, the court having instructed the jury to return a verdict
for the defendant, Herman Keller, whose connection with the "Horse Thief as-
sociation" was not proven. The six remaining defendants filed one motion to
arrest judgement and another for verdict for the defendants on the ground
the findings were in conflict with the general verdict. The judge having submit-
ted certain specific questions for the jury to answer. Both motions were over-
ruled and judgment rendered against the six defendants. Thereafter they ap-
pealed and judgment of the lower court was affirmed, January 27, 1891.
When it came to the payment of the trial costs the defendants against whom
the verdict stood wished to pay but six-sevenths of them, contending the exon-
erated defendant should pay his share of the defense. They once more went to
the supreme court on this question and the higher tribunal directed the six to
pay the total costs of the defense, this last ruling was made December 20, 1894, so
the case consumed from the beginning twenty years.
E. V. Miller, Abe Miller and H. D. Keller died about the close of the litiga-
tion without property. John Foreman died about six years ago and David Fall,
three years ago. George Miller is now living in Anamosa at the age of ninety
years, with but little property. S. D. Potter is still living in Greene county, but
has no property.
Robert Johnson is now seventy-one years old, having been born in Delaware
county, Ohio, in 1838. He was married in Jones county in 1861 to Miss Mary
Saum and they raised a daughter and son to womanhood and manhood during
the progress of the Jones County Calf Case. Concerning the suit, Mr. Johnson
says:
"I know I was right in this case. I do not regret the tiresome litigation. My
honor and integrity were questioned. It pays to fight under such circumstances.
I lost my farm of one hundred and sixty acres and all my property but 1 feel
well repaid. My wife, my children and my friends know now I was innocent,
and I can look any man in the face without a blush."
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN JONES COUNTY.
Catholicity in Iowa, as in the discovery of the country, was co-temporaneous
with the footsteps of the first white man. The Jesuit missionaries, Marquette
and Joliet, paddled their boat down the Wisconsin River, and entered the great
"Mesipi," the mention of which they had heard from the Sioux Indians, in the
summer of 1763. The view filled them "with a joy that I cannot express," says
Marquette's record. These missionary explorers discovered the Mississippi on
the 17th of June, in the year above mentioned. They were the first Europeans
in this region. Rowing, or drifting down the current, they saw wild animals,
wild birds and fishes in great variety, but no sight or vestige of human beings,
until the 25th of June, when they perceived the footmarks of men at the water's
edge, with a well-beaten path leading out to the expansive prairie. Following
this pathway for six miles, the two "Black Gowns" came upon an Indian village,
of some three hundred huts, whose inhabitants called themselves "Illini" (men.)
That was the first time a white man had set foot on the soil of Iowa — "The Beau-
tiful Land," — and there and then the first message of the Gospel of Christ was
imparted to the native Redskin, in his own tongue and territory, west of the
Father of Waters. The noted pathway, and the historic landing occurred, as
nearly as can be ascertained, at what is now known as Sandusky creek, Lee
county; and the inland village was situated on the borders of the Des Moines
river some distance above Keokuk, in the southeastern corner of this state,
After a stay of four or five days, Marquette continued his sail down the Missis-
sippi as far as the mouth of the Illinois river. Changing his course, he ascended
this river, and eventually made his way back to his headquarters at the mission
of St. Ignace, Michilimackinac, Michigan. Two years later, May 19, 1675,
he died at tb^ mouth of the river Marquette, so called to honor and perputuate a
worthy name.
In 1680 Father Louis Hennepin, starting northward from the Illinois River,
undertook to explore the upper Mississippi. Passing along the eastern borders
of Iowa, it is presumable he made some stops for investigation, and it is not un-
likely he preached, and possibly offered up the Holy Sacrifice for the first time
upon Iowa soil.
With the death of Father Potier, in 1781, the Jesuit missions in the north-
west were closed ; and for a period of thirty years there was no priest stationed
west of Detroit.
In the year 1700, one Le Seuer, a member of a party of French and Spanish
explorers, entered the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic ocean, and headed
the prow of their boat into the mouth of the Mississippi. They proceeded north
as far as the present site of Dubuque City. They were driven away by the
Indians, but not until Mr. LeSeuer got an idea of the mineral wealth buried
in those beckoning bluffs. Mistaken as to the material, he reported the discovery
of a "hill of copper." On the strength of that report, nearly a century later,
JuHen Dubuque set out for the Eldorado of the west. But scant justice is done
to the memory of this most resourceful man. He was the Livingstone of his day,
ranking not unfavorably with Lewis and Qarke, and other blazers of civili-
zation's trail. In fact, little or nothing was known of his origin or antecedents,
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until the late M. M. Ham, editor of the Dubuque Herald, traced back his record.
His birth and baptism are registered on the loth of January, 1762, at St, Pierre,
district of Three Rivers, on the borders of the St. Lawrence. At the age of
twenty-three, in his youthful roaming, he reached Prairie du Chien; and pro-
ceeding down the river, in 1788, he set his eyes and his heart on the acquisition
of those valuable mines. By marrying a squaw — the daughter of Peosta, chief
of the Foxes — he gained a title to one hundred and forty-eight thousand, one
hundred and seventy-one acres of ground, at the mouth of the Catfish creek,
where, with ten Canadian labores, he commenced operations in the "Mines of
Spain." The same mines had been previously worked to some extent by a Mr.
Cardinal, and before him again, by one Longe, who was the first operator.
At the opening of the nineteenth century, Europeans in goodly numbers be-
gan steadily to advance upon the outposts of civilization. With the bravery of
desperation, the Redmen fought, under their chief, Blackhawk, for their birth-
right and their hunting grounds. Their patriotism was no less admirable than it
was unavailing. As a result of the last Blackhawk war, terminating in 1832, a
strip sixty miles broad, along the west bank of the Mississippi, was ceded to the
United States. At first this was under no judicial control. In 1834 it became
Michigan territory. In 1836 it was made Wisconsin territory. In 1838 it was
changed to Iowa territory; and in 1846 it received the designation of the Great
State of Iowa. The first settlement in the state was at Dubuque. The first two-
story log house, north of St. Louis and west of Detroit, was built at the cor-
ner of Bluff and First streets, in 1833, by Mr. Patrick Quigley, father of Dr.
John P. Quigley, who at one time kept a drug store in Dubuque, then lived in
the comforts of well earned retirement, and at last moved to spend the declining
years of age with a son at Salt Lake City, Utah, where he died some years ago.
Again, the star spangled banner was first unfurled on Iowa soil, by an Irish-
man, Nicholas Carroll, living in the vicinity of Dubuque, just after midnight pre-
ceding the morning of the 4th of July, 1834.
For years before what is distinguished as the "Blackhawk Purchase," some
venturesome immigrants, generally French or Canadian-French, had engaged in
fur trading and other traffic with the Indians, along the Iowa streams entering
the Mississippi. Their religion, as far as they had any religion, was Catholic
But Catholicity is more than a mere name. The mustard seed sown in baptism
without constant cultivation, is likely to become choked out by the thorns, and
briars, and rank weeds of wickedness, that grow up for ever from the subsoil of
old Adam's fallen nature. It is as easy as it is imperative, for old-world Christians,
in the ranks of their coreligionists, to keep step with the moving procession.
There are temples "with groined arch, and vaulted aisle," under lofty spires reared
by fraternity's free labor, in the Middle Ages. Here it was far different. No
mellifluous sound of bell summoned the first settlers on the Sabbath morning,
no swelling peal of organ or trained choir charmed the worshippers, no godly
man to shrive the old or instruct the young, no books or papers or family devo-
tions to keep by-gone memories green in their souls, no friends no advisers no
good example — it is small wonder that the inhabitants of the log cabin gradually
grew to know little, and care less, about religion in any of its forms. If the
sources of information are reliable, the pioneer populace of the lead mines
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lapsed in course of time to entertain hardly any fear of God, and hardly any re-
gard for man. Of the one thousand persons resident in the mines in 1835, it is
believed not more than two hundred could be called Catholics.
It is a platitude to say that the history of the world is the biography of its
great men. It is trite that the history of the church is the history of the papacy;
and it is no less tnie that parish history is the history of the successive pastors
in charge. The life story of the pioneer pastors, or missionaries, was little known
of men, much less reduced to a written record. Their life was an ordeal hidden
in God, written only in the Book of Life. The recording angels were their sole
biographers.
In the late '30s of the past century, occasional visits were made to the scat-
tered Catholics at either side of the Mississippi, by priests who had no home, but
whose headquarters were now at Detroit, now at Galena and now at St. Louis.
There was no pastor resident in Iowa before the first bishop. In 1837 Dr. Loras,
of Mobile, Alabama, was appointed bishop of Dubuque, where he arrived to tiEike
up his residence in the spring of 1839, after having spent the previous year in
his native country, France, in quest of volunteer missionaries to help him minister
to the wants of his new charge.
Immigration, in large measure Irish and German, was then pouring rap-,
idly into the territory. In 1843 R^v. J. G. Perrodin, a Frenchman, came to
contribute his quota of "doing good" in this section. Father Jeremiah Treacy
was received into the diocese, about the same time. Returning from a visita-
tion to Rome in 1850, the bishop brought with him among others, Michael
Lynch, who was soon afterward ordained, at Mount Saint Bernard, Key West,
four miles outside Dubuque. He, too, joined the ranks in the vineyard. Those
names are mentioned above others, because they are fundamentally connected
with the history of Catholicity in Jones county.
In 1843 whilst assisting at the fifth provincial council of Baltimore, Bishop
Loras effected arrangements with the Sisters of Charity, Blessed Virgin Mary,
then stationed at Philadelphia, to move to Iowa. They located their mother
house ten miles west of Dubuque, on the Cascade road, where also they estab-
lished a boarding academy.
In 1849 ^ branch of the Cistercian order of monks, commonly called Trap-
pists, laid the foundation of their monastery at New Melleray, where the dio-
cesan bishop donated them a large tract of land. This, too, was situated west of
the city, near what is known as the United States Military road, running from
Dubuque to Iowa City, then the state capital.
Four miles west of the city the bishop erected and opened an ecclesiastical
college or seminary, called Mount Saint Bernard's, which its founder expected
might possibly grow with the growth of years, until it equaled the old seats of
learning to which the thousands, thirsty for knowledge, came to sit in their shadow
and partake of the intellectual pabulum that fell from their chairs.
Near this college, the brothers of Christian Instruction, a teaching com-
munity from Puy, France, laid the nucleus of a novitiate of their order, under
the name of New Paradise Grove, whose graduates were supposed to supply in
future years all the needs of pedagogy, in the state and beyond it.
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The star of Bethlehem, like the "star of empire," westward wends its way.
Ail the above hopeful ecclesiastical foundations were set to the west of Dubuque.
It is easy to perceive how such promising, if not yet prosperous institutions at-
tracted a large number of the class of Catholics who wished above all to live in
a religious atmosphere and secure their families safe in the faith of their fore-
fathers. The vicinity of the monastery consisted largely of immigrants drawn
thither by the name and fame of the brothers. They were the "guides, philoso-
phers, and friends" of the entire neighborhood. They well deserved it. "There
were giants in the earth in those days." Brother Murphy was acknowledged uni-
versally as among the ablest business men of his day. Father Bernard concealed
under his coarse "cowl" more mental and mystic wisdom than many a head that
wears a mitre.
Garryovven was probably the first rural mission to which a resident priest
was assigned. Its limits extended into the surrounding counties, Jackson, Du-
buque and Jones. Jones is next on the west. Cascade is partly in Dubuque, and
partly in Jones county. Its two Catholic churches stand on the county line.
Honor to whom honor is due. To Washington township belongs the credit
of being the cradle of Catholicity in Jones county. Catholics began to settle
there as early as 1839, ^^^ ^Y John Glenn, Daniel Curley, and James McDermott,
uncle of Supervisor T. J. Finn. Their nearest church was ten miles distant (Gar-
ryowen), to which they regularly drove by ox-teams. Father Perrodin was resi-
dent, or rather itinerary pastor. He was a learned man and published a treatise
on Christian doctrine, prefaced by a brief sketch of the author's life, which is still
preserved as precious heirloom in almost every home of his ministrations. He
left in 1851, and died in Dubuque, where he lies buried, in the old cemetery, on
Third street hill. He was succeeded by Rev. J. Treacy, whose circuit included
all the northern tier of townships, as far at least as Castle Grove, where we
shall hear of him later in this connection. Father Treacy was in many respects
much above the ordinary. Like the fabled warrior of old, who was invincible as
long as he kept his feet upon the ground, this good man foresaw the absolute
necessity of his countrymen settling down on the land — their own land — if ever
they should expect to rise above the rank of "hewers of wood, and drawers of
water." Another Moses, he appeared in New York to lead a colony of his
chosen people from the city slavery to the possession of the western promised
land, which the "I-ord hath given to the sons of men." Archbishop Hughes, then
in his heyday, drove the "crazy crusader" out of the city. The prelate lived long
enough to acknowledge that the poor western priest's judgment was superior
to his own. In 1856 Father Treacy organized an Irish colony in Dubuque, which
he accompanied through Independence, Fort Dodge and Sioux City, to a point
twelve miles farther west, where they formed a settlement which was first
named St. Johns, but is now known as Jackson, Nebraska. He afterward went
into the Civil war, as chaplain, under General Rosecrans, administering to both
armies. In 1879 he was stricken with paralysis, and ten years later died in the
Alexian Brothers' Hospital, St. Louis, not having spoken an intelligible word for
five years.
Rev. P. Maginnis came from Garryowen, and was the first resident pastor
in Washington township, or in Jones county. He erected the first church, a
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frame structure attached to the district school, both virtually forming one build-
ing. He also gave the place the name of Temple Hill, from the fact that the
church or temple was erected on an elevation overlooking the surrounding coun-
try. Thomas Finn, father of Patrick Finn, and uncle of Supervisor T. J. Finn,
donated five acres, out of the forty which he then possessed, for a church site.
It was dedicated to St. Peter. Cascade, although having had a church since 1845,
was at this time an out mission attended from Temple Hill. Father Maginnis,
after leaving this place, drifted to different parts of the country and even to Aus-
tralia, where he remained for several years. Finally returning, as he used to say,
to the "old hunting grounds" like the chased hare described by Goldsmith, that
came to die at the starting point — he ended his varied career at Clinton, having
spent the closing years of his usefulness as assistant priest in Deep Creek, now
Petersville, the same county.
Rev. Alexander Hamilton was next, of whom nothing can be learned more
than the name.
Rev. John O'Connor succeeded in i860. During his pastorate the old church,
and all the records were destroyed by fire. Hence the loss of preexisting data.
Rev. J. V. Ctmningham became pastor in 1862. At the close of the war, the
congregation, then numbering one htmdred and thirty-nine families, took steps
to replace the burned building. They completed a new stone structure in 1866.
Rev. M. Lynch, residing in Cascade, with Father Mcintosh as copastor, held
charge of both churches from 1867 to 1872. The former died in Holy Cross,
Dubuque county, the latter died suddenly on the road, near Temple Hill.
Rev. Laurence Roche arrived in the fall of 1872, immediately after his or-
dination. Overflowing with animation, ability and the fervent zeal of youth, he
built the present parochial residence, also a church in Onslow, ten miles away,
which he attended regularly, during his four years' stay. He still lives in Cas-
cade. That nearly two score years of strenuousness has not yet diminished his
vigor or dimmed his successful zeal is demonstrable by the beautiful church and
all the parochial accompaniments which stand to his everlasting credit, in the little
town of his present habitat. His name should go shining down the diocesan
records.
Rev. Daly was pastor from 1876 to 1880; Rev. Edmund Farrell, from 1880 to
1890; Rev. William Convery, from 1890 to 1902. He enlarged the church,
added a very respectable school, which is in charge of the Franciscan sisters, from
Dubuque. It was opened in 1889.
The present encumbent, Rev. P. J. Coffey has held the position since 1902.
His single minded life is devoted unreservedly to the duties of his office. Hav-
ing meritedly gained the confidence, combined with the generosity of his people,
he has made wonderful improvements in the church and surroundings. Addi-
tional schoolroom has been well provided, over an extensive basement, which
is furnished with culinary requisites, and a hall for church entertainments.
Altogether the mother church of Jones county is one to which both its pastor
and people can point with just pride. Standing on a forty-acre plot, its mag-
nificent spire points to heaven from the summit of a gently sloping hill. The
grounds are ornamented with shade trees, cement walks, and terraces. The par-
ishioners, among whom but few non-Catholics, are all prosperous and happy.
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Contented in their present circumstances, they live in peace, friendship and unity,
faithful alike to their fathers' church and their fathers' God. And as they live
harmoniously here, they are satisfied in the hope that they will "sleep hereafter
the sleep of the just" in union, or reunion, in the pretty little cemetery behind
their house of prayer.
The following came to the locality previous to 1850, besides those already
named: Thos. Moran, Patrick Donahoe, Michael Flanagan, John Finn, Thos.
McNally, Michael Geraghty, Thomas Devanny, John Lang, Thomas Morrisson,
Thomas Leonard, Malachi and Michael Kelly, Michael (Squire) Kinney with five
brothers — Dennis, Patrick, Martin, William, and Thomas. There may possibly
be others whose names are not remembered.
CATHOLICITY IN ANAMOSA.
Passing the geographical and topographical aspects of the county seat, also
political and civic considerations which form no part of our immediate concern,
leaving aside, too, the general religious history of the locality in whch we con-
stitute but a rather small fragmentary portion, our contribution to the present work*
will have to do with the Catholic church only.
Comparatively short as it may seem since the first nucleus of an organization
of this denomination in Anamosa, yet all official record of it is lost, if it ever was
reduced to writing; and, indeed, all remembrance of it is nearly effaced from the
tablets of memory. The world — physical, intellectual, social, and ecclesiastical —
moves very rapidly, history is made day after day, the common-place events of
yesterday are the history of today. Is it just because events are common-place
that people do not think worth while to remember, much less to make a note of
them ? It is impossible at this date to tell when the first Catholic settled in Ana-
mosa, or who he was ; it is not known when the first Catholic missionary visited
those parts, or who he was ; and it is a matter of very unreliable conjecture when
the first Catholic congregation was organized in this conununity. It may be the
records were lost or destroyed ; it is much more likely they never were made out
in a form that could be preserved.
As remarked above, it is beyond doubt that the first Catholic settlers in the
county came into Washington township at the northeast corner, in the late '30s of
the last century. In those days, when railroads were a thing of the future, all
travel was by ox-teams, horseback, stage-coach, or the oldest of all methods of
locomotion, on foot. The current of communication ran from Dubuque to the
state capital, along the famous highway known as the Military road — established
by the national government in 1839 — through Cascade, to Anamosa, where horses
were exchanged at the Waverly Hotel, in the down-town district, now dubbed as
Dublin, to Fairview, then a promising village, Marion, and Iowa City, the capital.
A four-horse coach ran daily over this route, commencing in 1844. Cedar Rapids
and Monticello were yet of minor note on the map.
The middle '50s mark a turning point in the life of Anamosa. Two great
railroads, the Iowa Central Air Line, east and west, and what was called the Ram's
Horn, north and south, from Dubuque to Keokuk, both incorporated in 1852 and
both surveyed to pass through Anamosa, made this city a center of anticipated
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growth and prosperity. Both of these roads could have been built, and the city's
anticipations abundantly realized, if men were only honest; but unfortunately
the "noblest work of God" — ^an honest man — ^was as scarce then as he is now. The
first named railroad "suicided through reckless management and open rascality,"
the latter road proved a failure except for the small part of it called the Dubuque
Western. This fraction, for which Anamosa is principally indebted to the late
Colonel W. T. Shaw, gave the first impetus to send here that class of people who
are not afraid of hard work, who build the railroads, make the prairie blossom and
propagate the hmnan race. Some of them came and went to follow the old avoca-
tion of railroading elsewhere ; some of them staid to make homes in this city or
surrounding country. Our best inquiry cannot make certain the name of the pre-
cursor. Like the leaders of many other movements, his name is lost in the morn-
ing haze of time immemorial. This is as far as our information goes r
P. McCaflFrey and a man named Kelly lived here in 1855, when John Henley,
(father of Mrs. McGreevy), Phillip Flannery, (father of Mrs. Spellmann) and
Jas. O'Donnell, (uncle of Mrs. B. McLaughlin, Sr.), reached this place en route
from Cascade. In the following year P. Wallace, and James Dorsey came upon
the scene. The latter journeyed afoot all the way from Farley, carrying his
worldly effects in the proverbial grip-sack. The winter of 1856-57 was counted
the coldest experience "within the memory of the oldest inhabitant." Cattle were
seen standing in the yards frozen fast in death. James Spellman formed one of a
searching party who found a family named Wade in the snow frozen on the prai-
rie near Langworthy. The newcomers vowed that if they survived the season's
severity, they should never more set foot on Iowa soil. But the breath of spring
which melted away the snow, just as eflfectually melted away the migratory mood
from the minds of the home-hunters. The building of the railroad from Farley
was commenced in 1857. A large influx of immigrants, anticipating the results,
rushed to Anamosa, among them a goodly number of Catholics, merchants;
mechanics, laborers, and farmers, (E. C. Holt, Maurice Cavanagh, John Hayes).
In 1858 and 1859, ^ts the road was nearing Anamosa, whilst a few families re-
mained in Langworthy, Jno. Fleming, M. Mulconery, and M. Doyle, the greater
number came and settled in the city — P. Morrissey, Tom English, B. McLaughlin,
F. O'Rourke, M. Casey, H. White, John Murphy, Foley Brothers, Chesire Broth-
ers, Gavin Brothers. Most of those are long since resting in their last sleep, some
are pitifully consigned to the grave of oblivion, and, sad to relate, not a few of
them were lost to the roll of religion for which they and their forebears were ready
to shed their blood. Besides the settlers in the city, a far greater number of
steadfast adherents to the old faith cast their lot in the outlying country — Stone
City quarries, Fairview, Langworthy, Prairieburg, and the Buffalo Creek prairie.
For want of better opportunities, they drove ten or twelve, and some as far as
fourteen miles to church. Their naines are worthy of being written in letters of
gold ; but they are too numerous to be recounted in the space at our disposal. For
years the facilities of church attendance were like angels' visits, "few and far
between." When an itinerant missionary happened to pass along, or write before-
hand announcing his intended visit, a courier carried the word from house to
house, and the little crowd assembled in some shanty or log cabin, where their
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prayers ascended to heaven's throne, with as much heartfelt devotion as in St.
Peter's at Rome.
The first house in which mass was celebrated in this city is said to have been
a small frame, behind E. M. Harvey's residence. It was owned at the time by
Colonel Shaw, who himself lived in a much smaller place situated across the road
from the fair grounds, a short distance west of the slaughter house. Preparing
as he was for the erection of the brick dwelling near his father-in-law, Mr. Crane,
on Strawberry Hill, where he long lived in later years, he put up the studding,
with roof, of a low barn-like structure, in the fall of 1858. When work was
stopped by the cold winter weather, he tacked around the outside some pieces of
carpet, sheets and paper, and there he made his habitat for a whole year. The
first itinerant priest made his presence known in town, and sought some place to
hold services. The colonel readily proffered the use of his new building, such as
it was, and further offered him the hospitality of his own home whilst the priest
staid here. Early on the following morning, when a few of the Catholic men
hastened to the unfinished house, to light a fire, sweep up and fix a table in lieu
of the altar, they found that the good colonel had anticipated their intentions, and
with his own hands prepared everything in perfect shape for the occasion.
After this, a log house, the residence of James O'Donnell, at the bend of the
road, close by the northeast corner of the Driving Park, served the purposes of
a Catholic chapel, for some time. Increasing numbers impelled them to provide
larger, if not more suitable quarters. They next secured the use of the county
courthouse, then located on a knoll at the extreme west end of town, in a frame
adjoining a two-story brick (this latter used for other county offices) still to be
seen at the lower end of Main street. This courthouse was moved away, and
turned to other uses ; and for some length of time court was held in the Odd Fel-
low's hall, east of the Gillen House (hotel). Whether it was the congruity of
propounding and expounding and pounding the divine and civil law from the same
tribunal, or that in the case at issue "necessity has no law"* anyway both the Epis-
copalians and the Catholics again resorted to the courthouse to perform their devo-
tional exercises and hear the law of the gospel. Later on, in a room which was
then the "City Hall," over Gordon's Store, in the same block, the same two so-
cieties, Episcopal and Catholic, held their Sabbath services successively.
The first mention we find, or perhaps more true to say, the first steps taken,
toward the erection of a Catholic church in Anamosa, is when Colonel Shaw,
with characteristic enterprise and generosity, donated two lots for a building
site, on the corner of First and Garnavillo streets, where the Episcopal and
Methodist Churches were afterward located. This property was transferred to
the diocese, through Father Slattery, who was then stationed at Cascade, but
visited Anamosa, during the building of the railroad, at certain regular intervals.
For reasons, whether wise or religious will never be determined, these beautiful
lots were sold, and the receipts expended for the purchase of some ground
away back on the hill, at the other side of town where a brick church was built,
in a spot as inconvenient as it was unsightly. In justice perhaps it ought to be
mentioned, that the then diocesan. Bishop Smyth, when he heard of this oc-
currence, voluntarily offered to refund the total amount realized from the trans-
action, two hundred and fifty dollars. The colonel scouted the proposition.
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The first church, at the northwest corner of town, was a simple structure,
fifty by thirty feet, without spire or ornament indicative of its use. It was built
aknost entirely by the free labor of a few devoted sons of St. Patrick. Ah ! but
what they may have lacked in numbers, they more than made up for in strength
of muscle and in strength of soul. Money was a scarce article in those days,
but the faith that moves mountains and the muscle that moves dirt and the spirit
that builds churches was not scarce as it is now. Five men dug the foundation.
The senior "Barney" McLaughlin dug the first sod, and no one will deny that
there was a man behind the spade. On the good work went, with willing hands
and hearts — ^no shirking, and no such thing as growing tired — each toiler was
anxious to do more than his brother. It would remind one of the Middle Ages,
when "free labor" built the famous cathedrals of Europe. They quarried the rock
and hauled it, they hauled the sand and brick and wood. Thomas Holt, with
three sons and a nephew, all expert stonemasons and bricklayers, were not long
putting up walls that most competent judges pronounced, fifty years afterward,
the best piece of workmanship that they had ever examined. The only cash con-
tributions are said to be one hundred dollars from Philip Flannery, who was then
in the army, where he died and one hundred dollars by Maurice Mulconery,
uncle of Maurice Fay, who was roadmaster on the Dubuque & Southwestern
Railroad. This money was used to buy brick. It was completed in 1861, and at
its opening was entirely free of debt. There is no written account attainable of
the formalities attending its dedication — ^no recollection, not even a tradition of
the date, or of any particulars of the function. A local print says : "It was dedi-
cated by Bishop Smith, assisted by several of the clergy."
As mentioned in a preceding notice on the church in Washington township,
the principal thoroughfare of traffic in the early *6os ran from Dubuque west-
ward. Accordingly, all ministerial attendance might be expected to come here,
by way of stage, from Cascade, or Temple Hill. So it was. Fathers Slattery,
Cunningham and O'Connor paid regular visits in the order of succession speci-
fied ; also occasionally Fathers Pickenbrock, Rehnoldt, and in response to special
calls Father Cogan, of Monticello, Bernard, of New Melleray Monastery, Treacy
of Garryowen, Sheils, of Independence, and Paul Gillespie, C. S. C, of Holy
Cross, now Key Stone.
After the railroad, the building of which was temporarily suspended during
the war, had reached Marion, in 1865, ^^^ some time later was extended as far
as Cedar Rapids, the clergymen charged with the Catholic interests of Anamosa
came by rail from the west end of the line. Rev. John Sheils attended to Catholic
wants here for a rather long, though broken period, and at one time had a fixed
residence at Anamosa, in a little house at the lower end of town. His first re-
corded baptism was October 2, 1857, and his last, January 4, 1868. He lies
buried, in a raised tomb, at the left-hand side of the walkway, between the street
and the door of the Catholic church at Waverly, Iowa. During a gap in his pas-
torate, Rev. P. V. McLaughlin, a young man raised in Dubuque, acted as pastor,
or substitute, for a few months from January to May, 1867. He also made his
residence here, in a small house, off Park avenue to the northwest of Doctor
Skinner's. His next appointment, in May, 1867, was to St. Mary's church, Qin-
ton, where "he labored acceptably and successfully in the interests of the church.
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and was greatly beloved by his people," up to the time of his death, January i6^
1879. He is buried under the altar in his church. His successor, and the present
pastor of St. Mary's, is his brother, Dean E. J. AIcLaughlin, whom many old set-
tlers well remember as a small bright boy, running over the hills, whilst he staid
here on a visit with his elder brother.
In 1868 Rev. B. C. Cannon, stationary pastor at Cedar Rapids, paid monthly
visits to Anamosa, besides attending calls of emergency. After various subse-
quent vicissitudes, he closed his labors as chaplain at the Franciscian orphanage,
Dubuque, some ten or twelve years ago.
The next succeeding pastor at Cedar Rapids, Rev. Clement Lowery, also con-
tinued to make periodical visitations to Anamosa, in 1869 and 1870, sometimes
on Sunday, and sometimes on week days, as this was one of thirteen missions in
his circuit. Then as now, in the southern tier of townships of this county, there
were very few Catholics. Among the few was M. D. Corcoran. He writes: "I
came to Jones county, the isth of April, 1856. For the first year I never saw a
person of my race or religion. Then Mr. John Gorman, with four Englishmen,
came from Illinois, and joined in a contract to build seven miles of the Air Line
Railroad. I hastened to see him. Imagine the joy of meeting a friend in a desert,
of Robinson Crusoe meeting a brother on the lonely island ! We were the only
two Irishmen that either had any knowledge of. It served to form a friendship
between us that nothing but death could or did dissolve." Mr. Corcoran is still
one of us, living with his sons in Missouri.
Rev. P. J. Maher, of blessed memory, was cradled on the banks of the Suir,
six miles above the city of Waterford, Ireland. Having made his classical and
ecclesiastical studies at St. John's College in that city, he was ordained at Pen-
tecost, 1870, affiliated to the diocese of Dubuque. After the usual season of rest
and recreation, he emigrated to his chosen field of labor and received his first ap-
pointment as pastor of Anamosa, where he arrived to take up his residence in
November of the same year. He was supposed by many to be a rather quaint
character, with unconventional ways; but he impressed his personality on the
church and community as few men can do. In fact, he may be said to have in-
spired new life and vision into the church. Immediately on assuming charge he
addressed himself to his entrusted duties with a zeal and fidelity that soon told.
At first he boarded at the home of Henry Jackman, and at John Stafford's ; later
he rented a house south of the union depot, where he lived until he built the
present pastoral residence, on a square acre of ground purchased from Dr. Sales,
at the comer of Broadway and High street. He had nothing to begin with, except
the four walls of the little brick church on the hill. Soon finding that this had
outlived its usefulness for the increasing congregation he advocated a new build-
ing. The foundation of a commodious substantial stone edifice, one hundred
and ten by forty-six, was laid in 1875. The comer stone is inscribed "August
22, 1876." It was carried to completion in due time, and, after some ad-
ditional improvements of a sacristy and vestibule, was made ready for dedication
September 12, 1880. Diocesan Bishop Hennessy had come to the city, but being
prevented by illness from officiating, he delegated Rev. James Brady, of Farley,
to act in his stead. The sermon was by Rev. Thomas Rowe of West Dubuque,
later of Strawberr)' Point, where he died, July 22, 1904. A local paper describes
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the preacher as "a young man with much dignity of carriage and a clear, bright
face, who deHvered a plain matter-of-fact discourse — a message of beneficence to
the good Catholics of St. Patrick's parish — some passages of which were illu-
minated with exalted eloquence." The music was in charge of Miss Jennie Sales,
daughter of Dr. Sales, now a star vocaHst in the metropolitan theaters of Europe.
Father Maher also attended an out mission, on the Buffalo Creek prairie, where
he built a church two miles south of Prairieburg. He made an attempt, too, to
utilize the vacated brick church building for the purposes of a parochial school,
but the effort proved a failure. There is a cant clerical phrase to the effect that
the minister who builds a church builds himself outside of it. A year after put-
ting the top stone on the Anamosa church, its builder exchanged places with the
pastor of DeWitt, Clinton county, Iowa. There he remained up to the time of
his death, October 3, 1904.
Rev. Thomas McCormick accepted the spiritual direction of his coreligionists
at Anamosa, in November, 1881, and retained it for more than four years. Little
is known of his antecedents or birthplace. However, the brief period of his pas-
torate represents some steps of good progress. He was a man who did things.
Ehiring his time the Catholic cemetery, which was first a Httle patch on the side
hill, behind the old brick church, and then moved to a worse site some two miles
outside the city, was removed back, and permanently located on a most charming
plat of ten acres, on a rising ground close by town, on the way to Stone City. The
Catholics of this latter parish cooperate with those of Anamosa in keeping up the
"city of the dead," as they all combined to purchase and prepare the place for a
burying ground. Father McCormick also began the construction of a bell-tower,
which the church up to that time had not had, the bell being set on the ground.
He left in January, 1886, ostensibly to join a missionary society, and nothing was
heard of him more, until the announcement of his death, in April, 1894.
Rev. Robert Powers, who had been three years a pastor resident in another
part of the county, came to Anamosa March 20, 1886, and has held charge as
rector up to the present time (1909.) Whatever may be the dictates of policy or
friendship or historical truth or even self-interest, this is not the time nor the
place to express them. No one will dare speak of another in his presence as he
might have it in his heart to do. Although nearly a quarter of a century has
elapsed, and many changes, and it is hoped a few improvements, have taken
place, yet, whilst a soldier is in the fire of battle it may be premature to blow the
trumpet note of victory. The meritorious deeds of the longest lifetime may be
lost by one final fall, and whilst the outcome is hidden in the darkness of doubt, it
would savor of pride at the least, to pronounce life's problem successfully wrought
out. The real worth of a parish and the real work of a pastor is not stone and
brick and mortar, nor any other perceptible thing, neither is it pretense, and
least of all is it self-praise. St. Patrick's church and parish house have been en-
larged, remodeled and modified to such an extent that what little remains of the
original is scarcely recognizable. The make-up of the old building on the hill,
where the seed was first planted, has been modernized in a manner to make it a
suitable house to transplant the first seeds in the minds of the rising generation.
The single acre of ground first bought has spread until it now includes more than
ten acres. A sanitarium, worthy of a much larger place, was built in 1892, and
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rebuilt after being burned down, in 1902. Almost all the years, one after another,
have witnessed something done — ^in what measure each progressive effort deserves
the name of improvement is left for others to say.
Twenty- four years past! The past has a peculiarly subtle hold upon our
minds. A desire to look back at the past comes to most of us, in response to the
conviction that **no man liveth to himself alone." A generation has nearly passed
away. Blest be the tie that binds us to all that is gone. Some of the old stock have
left lineal descendants, taught to love the ways of the church and to hunger for
the worship of God after the manner of their forefathers. May it never be said
of them, as it has been said of others, that on leaving the old home they left their
religion behind them.
Popularity is a poor passport to glory. Yet it is something, that after having
spent the best part of a lifetime — in life, either or both ends amount to very
little — among the same people, a person does not lose respect the more he is
known. The present pastor of Anamosa has no aspirations to prominence in
the ranks of the church nor in the annals of church history. He has given freely
of his time and labor to the welfare of St. Patrick's congregation; yet he always
believed that he has done nothing more than his plain duty.
"Walk about Zion, and go round about her; and tell the towers thereof," etc.
There was the invitation of the poet-king, David the Psalmist. He wanted his
people to revisit the old places, where their fathers worshiped and around which
so many sacred associations clung. In like manner, the old generation that is fast
passing away, as many of them as revisit the place, may walk about St. Patrick's,
and go round about her, and give their heart's love to the towers thereof and to
the ivy-clad walls, and to the steps and stones, and trees, and to the spirits of the
departed that stand in its shadow.
ST. Joseph's parish, stone city; an outgrowth of anamosa.
As elsewhere stated, Anamosa is situated at the junction of two rivers — the
Wapsipinicon and the Buffalo. Hence the place was first known as the "Forks ;''
then it was named '^Dartmouth ;" next **Lexington" ; and lastly "Anamosa." Be-
tween the rivers mentioned, from their meeting point, runs a strip of land, increas-
ing in width, and rising to a considerable elevation, known familiarly as the
"Ridge." This ridge is altogether a formation of magnesia limestone, with only a
slight covering of earth, and in some spots by the edge of either river, cliffs are
exposed which stand perpendicularly to a height of thirty or forty feet. On lx)th
sides of the ridge, that is, along the banks of each river, stone quarries were
opened, beginning in 1853, frorn which large quantities of stone for building ma-
terial, paving, and road material have been taken out, and shipped hundreds of
miles in all directions. At present there are six quarries open on the Wapsie, and
four on the Buffalo. They give work to a large number of men, especially in the
summer season, sometimes as many as two hundred hands being employed in one
quarry. These employes, it is easy to understand, toihng as they are all week at
the severest kind of labor, should find it impossible to provide vehicles on Sunday
morning, and no less impossible to walk a distance of eight miles, to and from Ana-
mosa, the nearest place they could reach a church. In view of the circumstances.
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the difficulties and obligations to be complied with, Mr. J. A. Green, who employs
the largest number of Catholics, after due advice with the ecclesiastical authorities,
generously proposed to obviate matters by giving a large hall, over the postoffice,
which is owned by him, for use temporarily as a chapel. The offer was of course
accepted with the utmost gratitude. It was inmiediately and most willingly fitted
up with a crude altar, forms or benches of a rather primitive make-up, but sufficient
in every respect for all the purposes of Catholic services, which were held there
for the first time in February, 1884. Indeed, their conditions were far and away
superior to the log cabins or shanties, in which the first settlers were accustomed
to worship. In heartfelt thankfulness, and in honor of the "Provider of the Holy
Family," this new plantation of the gospel mustard seed was called St. Joseph's
Chapel.
The employes here, as in other public works, are not usually possessed of very
much means to build or beautify houses, either for God or for themselves ; neither
do they feel that they owe it to the present or future generation, to take any special
interest in the up-building of a permanent church or parish, for the good reason
that they belong to what is styled a "floating population," — ^they may stay a week,
or a month, or a season, and leave, possibly never to see the place more. It would
be in some measure unreasonable to expect such a class of people to contribute to
local church building in every place in which they may happen to spend a short
time.
But there are good, strong, and stationary Catholics in Stone City, who are by
no means hopeless of spiritual or temporal prosperity. The few residents who are
anchored to the rocks live in anxious hope of some day seeing in their midst a
temple worthy of the name "Stone" City, built, like the wise man's house, on a
rock ; "and the rains fell and the floods came, and the winds blew ♦ ♦ * and
it fell not, for it was built on a rock." Nature here abundantly supplies the ma-
terial to raise an edifice to nature's God. Rock, eternal rock, is piled up by the
hand of the Creator, in long ledges on the hillside, more than enough to build
ten thousand churches. All needed is to find human hands, stout and strong; and
big hearts, trusting, and courageous, and religious enough to place one rock upon
another. Oh, for the "ages of faith," when Solomon builded the most magnifi-
cent structure that the sun ever saw, yet humbled himself to the dust in thankful-
ness that the Eternal Excellency of the Most High should condescend to fix his
abode and "put His name there." In later years, the most skilled and skillful
builders that the world ever knew could conceive of no nobler use to make of
their workmanship than to bestow it free, gratis, in rearing temples to the honor
and glory of the "Giver of every good gift."
In the meantime, the many transient, and the few old-time permanent wor-
shippers, in Stone City, must be content to exercise their piety, on benches without
backs, as they have devoutly done for twenty-five years past.
At its formation, this was a chapel-of-ease, connected with Anamosa. whilst
Father McCormick resided there. He attended both churches every Sunday, al-
ternating early and late services between the two churches. Father Powers con-
tinued to give the same equal religious opportunities to the combined parishes up
to September, 1902, when a resident pastor was appointed to Stone City. It has
been an independent parish since, with the church on Buffalo Creek, two miles
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south of Prairieburg, attached to it as an out mission. The Rev. P. J. Leddy was
the first appointment to the charge. His mind failed, after a year and a half. He
was removed to a hospital at Dubuque, where he still remains, without hope of
mental improvement. His successor was Rev. J. Garland, who also resided at
Stone City, giving the requisite attention to the out mission, up to October, 1905
He is now stationed at La Motte, Jackson county. The next and present incum-
bent of this pastorate is the Rev. T. J. Norris. Besides Stone City and Prairie-
burg, he holds charge at this time of a third mission, at Lisbon, Linn county.
As already remarked, the parishioners here, both in number and in name, are
a variable quantity. Hence it would be little more than a waste of historical space
to specify the make-up of the congregation at any particular period. A large
proportion of them consists of French-Canadians, or their descendants from the
northern part of New York state. Although now in the third or fourth genera-
tion from the the original immigrants, they still fluently parley in the French
language and retain a great many of the national habits and customs of La Belle
' France. There arc also some splendid types of the German character among the
quarrymen; and a scattering few of almost every nationality in Europe.
It would be impossible at this day to obtain the order of sequence in which the
' Catholic ^fixtures in the quarry region came there. Presumably, the first among
them arrived in the sixties, as the stone business was operated on a very limited
scale prior to that time. The following are the most prominent of those who may
be ri^;arded as having permanent residences here, without a probability of further
migration : J. A. Green, John Ronen, John Walsh, Theo. Hennessy, August Pat-
node, Ed. Mearns, Dunn Brothers, Betz Brothers, Sampica Brothers, Rushford
Brothers, Denio Brothers, La Barge Brothers.
i. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MONTICELLO.
When this country was all a vast mission of the Catholic church occasional
meetings were held wherever the priests could gather together their congregations,
land often they journeyed miles from settlement to settlement on foot or horseback.
Their visits were few, and it was necessary on the arrival of a priest at a certain
place to send messengers to the different Catholic settlers for miles around. At
that time as there were no churches, the services were held at the different houses.
The few faithful that were scattered throughout the country were given the privi-
lege of receiving the benefits of the church, in this manner, once a year, and that
about Easter time.
The first mission station established in the county was in 1857 ^^ Anamosa.
Services were held in the courthouse. Monticello belonged to this mission. In
1854 and 1855 there were but few settlers in Monticello, but many Catholics came
in 1858 and 1859, to assist in the construction of the Dubuque & Southwestern
Railroad. Some of these early settlers still remain, though the greater number have
gone to their reward. Prior to 1868, when Monticello was still a small town and
with but few Catholics, services were held in Kinsella Hall and in what was known
as Davenport's Hall on the second floor of the old Monticello State Bank building,
which was torn down in the spring of 1902 to make way for a new building.
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In 1868 Rev. Father Cogan established and founded the parish in Monticello
and was the first resident priest. He built a frame structure in the southern part
of the town which was known as the Church of the Sacred Heart. The following
is a partial list of the names of the heads of famiHes who made it possible for the
establishment of a permanent parish :
Michael Breen, Cornelius Brown, Henry Burrows, Andrew Burns, Patrick F.
Cunningham, Patrick Cushing, John Fleming, John Farley, Daniel Kinsella, Ed-
ward Kinsella, Mrs. Ella McMahon, John Mathews, Madam McCormick, John
McConnell, Andrew Munday, Patrick OToole, Michael Quirk, Robert Shane,
Mrs. Peter Young.
In 1 87 1 Rev. Father Cogan was succeeded by Rev. Father David Welch who
made his residence in Monticello for a short time, and then moved to Castle Grove,
but still had charge of the parish here. The roof was blown oflf the Httle frame
church, which was re-roofed by Father Welch. This church was thirty feet by
sixty.
In 1872, Rev. P. O. Dowd, now of Petersville, Iowa, took charge of the par-
ish of Castle Grove, with Monticello as an outside mission, and remained until
the year 1878, when on October 8th the church was destroyed by a tornado that
swept the southern portion of the town.
The following Sunday, with sad hearts, and hopes almost blighted, the mem-
bers betook themselves to the little vacant schoolhouse in the northern part of the
town, and on December 14th of the same year, Very Reverend P. J. O'Connor,
now of Sioux City, a young and zealous priest came and took up the work of
rebuilding the church and again Monticello had a resident priest, with Sand Spring
as an outside mission. It was at this time that courage was needed for it seemed
that the congregation was diminishing instead of increasing, but the pastor, a man
of energy and determination, labored patiently, and erected the present edifice,
and parochial residence, the comer stone of which was laid in 1880. Some of
those present who were among the best helpers to promote this enterprise have
gone to their reward.
From the time the church was destroyed by the tornado in 1878, until the
present church was finished in the fall of 1880, services were held in the old school-
house. Along with the work of building and trying to pay the debt on the church,
Father O'Connor gave his earnest attention to the instruction of a large Sunday
school and the children of that time will never forget the many kindnesses, care
and attention bestowed on them. About the year 1884 Father O'Connor was
succeeded by Rev. J. Tobin, who remained nearly four years. During his short
stay he made some improvements to the church property and continued the work
already begtm by Father O'Connor in the Sunday school. In 1887 Father Tobin
was removed to Fairbanks, Iowa, where he died in July, 1899, after a life well
spent in patient toil dedicated to the services of God.
About Christmas, 1887, Rev. J. McCormick came to reside in Monticello., and
has remained ever since, it being the longest pastorate of any of the English-speak-
ing churches in the city. He is a man ever kind and sympathetic to those in
trouble, distress and sickness. Being a progressive age improvements have con-
tinued to be made on the church and property until, in all, nearly twenty thousand
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dollars have been expended, and now the church and residence are among the
finest and most up-to-date church properties in the county.
Not only the Catholic people are entitled to high praise for their liberality and
efforts in making the church property what it is, but non-Catholics have been
kind and generous in contributing.
From the few who left the little schoolhouse to enter the new church over
twenty years ago, the members have continued to increase both in number and
circumstances until the large edifice is now filled. All honor to those workers
who, in the beginning and since, were so faithful in helping to make the church
what it is. Although some of them have passed away they are still remembered,
and ever will be in the hearts of the Catholic people of Monticello, who have
watched the progress of the church in all those years.
A few years ago a branch of the order of Catholic Foresters was organized
here, and any eligible Catholic may join it. They also have two societies in the
church known as the Rosary Society and League of the Sacred Heart.
CATHOLICITY IN CASTLE GROVE.
Castle Grove, the extreme northwestern township in Jones county, is watered
by several creeks. These not only afford excellent fertility in meadow lands, and
furnish ample opportunity for stock raising, but they served to give the pioneer
a most desirable place of residence. Wood and water ! On the edge of the tim-
ber near a stream ! Ah ! there was the beau ideal to choose for a home — a sweet
home \ It was preposterous in those days to think of squatting down on the broad
bleak prairie ; and this for two great reasons : First, there was the foregone cer-
tainty, or at least the very probable liability of being frozen to death some night,
in the depths of the snow with no possible chance of finding a twig to light a
fire ; and the second reason was that the prairies, with their tall, waving grass,
seemed so immense in their expanse there could be no more likelihood or danger
of their being ever totally occupied than there was of the Sahara desert, or the
Atlantic ocean. Why the only good spot in the whole world for a sound and se-
cure habitation was supposed to be the edge of a growth of timber, sheltered from
the storms at all seasons of the year. There you were, with plenty of logs of
body wood at one side, for fuel in the big open fireplaces ; and with plenty of pas-
ture and hay at the other side just for the gathering. That filled the pioneer's
<up of prospective happiness.
The first two white men who settled on the present site of Monticello, came
in the fall of 1836. A few months later — in the summer of '37, two Catholics —
James McLaughlin and Thomas Galligan, came and settled in the same region.
Not a single sod of the virgin prairie had yet been upturned. They were, as far
as known, the first Catholics in Jones county. Let it be noted forever in local
history. The twelve apostles, after the ascension of their Divine Master, are
said to have assembled in a certain spot, (which is yet pointed out,) and after
having first composed the profession of faith called the "Apostles* Creed," they
divided the then known world into sections ; and one was told off to one section,
and another to another section, and a third to another, and so on. Well, "Jim"
McLaughlin and "Tom" Galligan were the "apostles" of the faith of St. Peter
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in this county. Sterling representatives they were of the faith which was not
unworthy a Redeemer's blood. By example, instruction, advice, and the best edu-
cation that Notre Dame University could give, they prepared their children to walk
in their father's footsteps. When the first priest passed on his circuit through
that northern tier of townships, on his way to Delhi, he found out the house of Mr.
McLaughlin. He stayed there ; he celebrated mass there ; the scattered Catholics
of that neighborhood assembled and joined in prayer and sacrifice in that impro-
vised domestic chapel. A brother of the itinerant missionary, having sometimes
accompanied him, married one of Mr. McLaughlin's daughters thus adding a so-
cial tie to the spiritual bond already existing between them. Well may their de-
scendants be proud of those who blazed the path of civilization through the woods,
and blazed the highway of Catholicity over the broad prairies. Will the mar-
riage of souls, contracted by the forefathers of those far oflf days, with their
mother church, be passed down indissoluble through the ages ? Will their children,
and children's children rise up and bless the names of their forebears, and renew
their inherited allegiance to the old rock-rooted church which was established "to
teach, govern, sanctify, and save all men ?" Long live the union between the Mac's
and O's and the old Apostolic church.
Castle Grove is so called from the first house of respectable dimensions built
there, by a man named Beardsley, near where the road crosses Silver Creek. Ed.
Moore's house stood in the same place in later days. Being the largest, if not the
only residence above a log cabin, it was called a "castle ;" and located as it was in
the grove, the township was named from it "Castle Grove."
Among the Catholics, D. M. Hogan and Ed Troy had both been soldiers in
the Mexican war. At their discharge they received each a "warrant" entitling
them to a "plat" or a quarter section of land, wherever they were pleased to
choose, in any part of Uncle Sam's unoccupied domain. At Monticello, getting
off the stage, they passed to the western edge of the timber growth, and there they
selected a spot which they decided to call home. Not much sign of a "home" vis-
ible until these sons of toil made it worthy the name. Here they lived and died.
Here too, their children still live, and occupy beautiful homes which the progress
of time and toil developed. Quarter sections of prairie, adjoining on the west,
were taken up in the early '50s, at government price — one dollar and twenty-five
cents an acre — ^by Dennis Hogan, with his sons, Jas. P'k. M'l. and D*s. ; also by
four Kehoe brothers, Ed. Simeon, P'k. and Wm. ; by P'k. Waddick, Jas. Delay,
and many others further west and north. They were nearly all of the same na-
tionality, chiefly sons of Tipperary, inoculated with the faith that never dies. Like
good Christians that they were, after having in the sweat of their brows provided
for bodily sustenance during six days of the week, their next thought was to "Re-
member the Sabbath day; to keep it holy." The Rev. Jeremiah Treacy, then sta-
tioned at Garryowen, passed on his circuit, through Cascade, Monticello, and on
westward through Castle Grove to Delhi. He was heartily and hospitably re-
ceived by the family of James McLaughlin, whose home being on the eastern
border of the settlement was first reached, and whose circumstances enabled him
more than the others, to render such entertainment as befitted the occasion. Here
the priest made his stopping place, here he celebrated mass, shrived the adults,
baptized the children, and instructed the youth in the tenets of religion. There is
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no means at hand of ascertaining the frequency of such calls, or the duration to
which each visit was prolonged.
As the new settlers spread out over the prairie, the center of population, and
the most convenient place of access, was found to be further west. Simeon Kehoe,
a most ardent devotee of the church, and an experienced server at the altar, gladly
offered the accommodations of his domicile, such as it was. This was made the
meeting house for some time, and it served to all intents and purposes, fof the
ministrations of the church. Though the missionary was regarded as residing in
Garryowen, as a matter of fact he did not enjoy the happiness of a residence any-
where. There were no parishes, or parish limits in those days. The priest took
with him the necessary outfit for the performance of his official functions, in his
saddle-bags if riding horseback, and carried them on his own back if "riding"
afoot. Setting out in search of a Catholic family or settlement, he was free to
stop, wherever he willed, without "let or hindrance" from any authority higher
than the spiritual needs of the people. The Rev. P. Maginnis, whose headquarters
were first at Garryowen, but later at Temple Hill, also made some visitations
over this circuit, and received the cordial hospitality of Mr. McLaughHn's home.
In 1853, ^y the advice and exertions of Rev. J. Treacy, the Catholics of the
settlement in their extreme poverty, denied themselves the comforts if not the
very necessities of life, in order to contribute the means sufficient to build a house
which should belong to God alone, and not a part of the culinary abode of some
sinful creature. The site selected was perhaps the most beautiful in all the town-
ship— on the point of a knoll some short distance directly behind the present pas-
toral residence. To foimd a permanent institution, as also to afford an abundance
of space for the anticipated needs of a growing congregation — for cemetery, school
and garden — but best of all as the outcome of a great big overflowing Irish heart,
Patrick MuUady donated forty acres of land for the use and benefit of the church
in Castle Grove. In the spring of 1854, the church was completed, to the immense
pleasure, and pardonable pride of the contributors. Solomon in all his glory was
not more supremely delighted after the finishing of his famous temple at Jerusa-
lem. It was finally ready for the opening or dedicatory ceremony on a certain day,
when by prearrangement. Father Treacy was to make his periodical visit. The
Godly man came and stayed as usual at Mr. McLaughlin^s, where he was no less
surprised than gratified, to learn that by extraordinary exertions they had suc-
ceeded in making all preparations for the sacred ceremony of dedication the next
day. In the twilight of early morning, the humble people hastened in their little
crowds to the house of God, with anticipated congratulations from one another,
and with hopes to receive the thanks and praise of the Almighty, through the
mouth of His minister, for the success of their efforts; whilst both priest and
people, as soon as the doors were opened, would walk in, and unite their voices
in great gusto, praying the prayer of Solomon on a similar occasion : "Will God
indeed dwell on earth ? Behold : the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how
much less this house that I have builded." When the high-hearted expectant
worshippers reached the cherished object of their anticipations, they had nothing
to see but a pile of black smoldering ashes. The year was 1854, and the bitterness
of the Know Nothing excitement was at its height. Some Know Nothings in the
western part of the settlement (their names afterwards became public) came in
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the darkness of night — when bad men always choose to do their worst work — and
set fire to the church, for no other reason than this alone — it was a Catholic church.
When the minister of the all-holy God arrived on the scene, he found his poor
people, no longer proud of their achievement, but shivering around the embers
of their burnt hopes, and asking one another in undertones if such things could
be in a free country.
There and then, partly in fierce faith, and partly in desperation, but most of
all depending on the fairness eventually of the American people, these Catholics
procured pen and paper and grimly signed their promissory notes to a subscription
list, to build forthwith a better church than the one burned down.
The second church, which was quite large for those days, was erected during
the pastoral attendance of Rev. M. Lynch, who resided in Cascade. He was in
young years a man of letters, well learned not only in theology and the dead lan-
guages, but also a fluent fine conversationalist in French, and later learned to speak
German, whilst he lived in the basement of his church at Holy Cross. He placed
the second church of Castle Grove, not on the foundation of the destroyed build-
ing, but nearer the road, where the present brick structure stands. His principal
employe in the work was a monk from New Melleray called Brother Matthew,
(Robert Healy) who later lived for many years at Anamosa, where he died, and
is buried in Holy Cross cemetery.
The next succeeding ministerial attendant was Father Cogan, resident in Mon-
ticello — ^the circuit was growing narrower. He in early life had been a "Chris-
tian Brother," a community devoted altogether to teaching, and his experience in
the class-room gave him a singular facility and fluency of speech, which stood him
in good stead, after he graduated in the higher studies. He made himself dis-
tinguished as a forceful controversialist, and held public discussions at Monticello,
and Sand Spring, which attracted more than ordinary interest at the time, with the
result (as always occurs in such cases) that the auditors went away still wedded
to their prejudices — some pro and some con. This clergyman was possessed of
rare personal magnetism, and could draw large numbers of people, of all classes,
and from long distances, to assist in any church work inaugurated by him. After
living for some time in Monticello, he moved to Castle Grove, where he built a
parochial house, which still stands as a part of the presbytery which was subse-
quently enlarged, and later again improved.
Father Brennan came next. The date of his entrance, or exit, or anything of
his personal history is not within reach. A sister of his, who kept house for him,
died during his pastorate, and lies buried in a shamefully unmarked grave behind
the church.
Rev. David Walsh followed. He is noted for a famous lawsuit, in which he
was prosecuted, by a Bohemian family named Stepanek, of Prairieburg, for the
overthrow and injury done to a monument, erected to the memory of their de-
ceased father. The Hon. C. R. Scott, then district attorney, exhibited no less
vehemence than animosity, in his eflForts to gain a conviction of the defendant.
The case was conducted, from beginning to end, in an atmosphere of intense strife,
bigotry, and malice. It resulted in a disagreement of the jury. The late Charles
Lull, and a Mr. Livingstone from Centre Junction, deserve everlasting credit,
esteem and gratitude, from the Catholicity of Jones county, for their independent
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upright stand on the issue, going according to the conviction of their conscien-
tious belief and judgment, in defiance of the majority of the jury who were de-
termined to force a verdict of "guilty," backed as they felt they were, by popular
prejudice, and the unconcealed bias of bench and bar. Father Walsh left soon
afterwards, for Wilton, Iowa, and when the day set for the next trial came on, he
was lying dead in a hospital in Davenport. His body is buried in St. Mary's
cemetery, in that city; and his soul awaited Scott's at the tribunal beyond the
clouds, where many of the prosecutions of this world will be reversed. In '69, Mr.
Scott lost his voice, and resigned his position of district attorney.
Castle Grove remained without a pastor for six months, when the Rev. Peter
O'Dowd was appointed to the charge. His ordination took place on May 24,
1872, at St. Patrick's college, Carlow, Ireland, whither the graduates of his Alma
Mater (Water ford) had been sent that year. In the October following, he emi-
grated, and coming to Dubuque, was assigned by Bishop Hennessy to Ackley, for
an opportunity of experience and rest, as his cousin — Very Rev. Peter O'Dowd —
(now of Independence,) was then pastor of the Catholic church there. On the
23rd of September, 1873, he received his letter of appointment to Castle Grove.
There he found the church so lop-sided, from the effects of a recent cyclone, that
before anyone could safely venture under its roof, three stout sticks had to be
propped against it on the outside. He next found a debt* of eight hundred dollars,
which exceeded the value of the entire property. How was it contracted? For
an eighteen dollar window he was made to pay two hundred dollars, between fac-
tory, express, and storage charges, interest compounding on interest, collection
fees, and all accruing costs. In a quandary as to how to make a beginning, one
man, Patrick Kehoe, Senior, strong as he was in the faith and love of God, and
full of devotion to his church, came forward, and assumed every cent of the
indebtedness on himself personally. He went out and hauled the first load of
brick, and having set it down on the ground, he placed on top of it his bond for
four hundred dollars in cash for a new building. This single act of trustfulness,
good example, and encouragement not only stopped the mouths of would-be croak-
ers, but really left no other option to every man in the settlement than this alone,
to follow in his leadership. All honor to Mr. P. Kehoe. Generations yet unborn
will rise up and bless the day he lived. Well may his name be revered as long as
there is a stone upon a stone in the church of Castle Grove.
The new pastor proved himself eminently worthy of the confidence reposed in
him. Spotless in Hfe, true to his calling, strict in the smallest secular, social, and
spiritual details, respectful of his position, a scholar and a student in all the de-
partments of learning, in short a perfect "man of God" in every sense of the
word.
The foundation of the new church was laid in 'j^, and the superstructure
erected in the following summer. At the laying of the comer stone, the sermon
was preached by the Rev. L. Roche, then of Davenport, now of Cascade. The
dedication took place on September 8, 1880, by Bishop Hennessy of Dubuque.
The report in a local newspaper says of it : "We have heretofore fully described
the gothic solidity of the exterior of this church edifice — ^than which there is no
finer outside of the large cities in the state of Iowa. In this writing we will con-
fine our description to the interior finishing, which, with its frescoings, carvings.
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and gildings, is of surpassing beauty; and is a faithful copy of some of those
grand houses of worship of classic fame, which are found in the capitals of the
old world." Then follows a lengthy description of the fifteen frescoes on the walls
and ceiling, w^hich are declared to be "not merely images daubed on in color paint,
but superb works of art — ^the artist's masterpieces, replete in beauty, and well
worth going a journey to see. All the rest of the interior of the church is equally
elaborate — altar, side altars, sittings, stained glass windows, matted floor." The
following occurs in a commentary on the services : "The sermon was delivered by
the Rev. P. O'Dowd of Ackley, Iowa, a cousin to the pastor of Castle Grove.
This ecclesiastic is a young man of nervous, meditative manner, and full of reli-
gious zeal, eloquent thought, and learning." After a summary of the discourse,
arid an account of the "baptism" of the bell, the writer concludes : "The people
of Castle Grove are the most prosperous community in Jones county, and in the
day of their prosperity they have not forgotten to be liberal. The work they have
accomplished in the completion of this church speaks volumes for their public
spirit, and for the diligence and wisdom of Rev. Father O'Dowd."
For the first six years in Castle Grove, Father O'Dowd attended the Catholic
church in Monticello, driving eight miles between the two places. Besides the
magnificent church, this pastor also built a very neat schoolhouse, which was
first rented to the directors of the district, and utilized as a public school, but later
was converted into a parochial school, with a residence for teachers and boarders
attached. At the time of this change it was moved to its present site — ^behind the
church.
Every work was completed, not only in the matter of construction, but the
grounds were admirably ornamented with rows of evergreen and shade trees, the
"city of the dead" was beautifully fixed up, and the entire surroundings rendered
like the country residence of a rich magnate.
Far from leaving a debt for his successor to shoulder, he not only liquidated
every penny of the old and new obligations, but a balance of nine hundred dollars
was left in the church treasury. The workman's part was done. On the day of
the dedication he was commissioned to Charlotte, Qinton county, where a similar
task awaited him. There he still lives, in rather enfeebled bodily health, but with
mind as brilliant, and memory as undimmed as thirty-seven years ago. Long be
his years of "otiutn cum dignitate," Catholicity in Jones county owes him much.
When first he set foot here a man of his cloth was suspicioned by all, and despised
by many. When he left us a minister of his denomination was more respected
than any man in the community.
In September, 1880, the Rev. J. Fogarty succeeded to the pastorship. He re-
mained until October, 1882, when he was replaced by the Rev. R. Powers, who
administered to the spiritualties of the people up to March, 1886. Then for a
few months the duties of pastor were filled by Rev. J. Griffin. In October of
the same year he went to Salix, Iowa, where he still resides as pastor. After him
came Rev. M. S. Murphy, who is the present enciunbent in office.
A Catholic church at Onslow, being vacated for many years, for want of a
congregation, was torn down last month, and the material taken to Baldwin,
Jackson county.
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OXFORD T UNCTION.
It is mentioned elsewhere in this department of the Jones county history that
there are but few Catholics in the southern tier of townships — Greenfield, Rome,
Hale, and Oxford. That statement deserves a note of qualification. In the south-
eastern comer of the county, in Oxford township, is a village — Oxford Junction
— of some two or three hundred inhabitants. Here is an intersection of two
branches of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway; and for several years
that company operated machine shops at the point of junction. The work natur-
ally brought an increasing number of mechanics, citizens of the best kind, with
their dependent families^ and the traders necessary to the completion of a city
community. For the time being, the ^'Junction" was an important and thriving
settlement, and its future prospects seemed bright and promising.
Among the operatives were a goodly number of Bohemians. Others of the
same nationality settled in the outlying vicinity. All of those brought the Catholic
faith with them from their motherland. Combining w^ith a few Irish families
residing in the locality tributary to the incipient town, they built a house of wor-
ship, a neat frame structure, in the year 1881. The ground for this first church
("St. Mary's") was donated by James Quirk, who died, full of years, honors,
and merits, in October, 1909. It was put up mainly by subscription, in which
the members of other denominations participated, with great good will and gener-
osity. The Rev. P. McNamara of Toronto, succeeded by the Rev. T. Laffin of
Marion, held services at regular periods, generally once a month, for several
years. In the meantime, on some of the intervening Sundays, services were con-
ducted by the Rev. Francis Chmelar and his successors, who, from the Bohemian
church at Cedar Rapids, attended to the spiritual wants of their own country-
people, throughout Linn, and all the adjoining counties, and often in other coun-
ties much farther away.
In 1897 a pastor was assigned for permanent residence at Oxford Junction, in
the person of the Rev. F. McAuliflFe. Disappointed at not receivmg a clergyman
to address them in their own tongue, the Bohemian worshipers demanded their
pro rata of the property thus far accumulated to the credit of the church com-
mon ; and with it, they seceded to build and maintain a church of their own, with a
pastor of their own nationality. This might appear perhaps a demonstration of
hiunanity, rather than of Catholicity ; but was it Josh Billings, or someone else
equally truthful who said: "there is a great deal of humanity in man." The
railroad machine shops are long since moved away, yet two churches of the same
denomination ^tand less than a block apart, in a town that previously could not
sustain either. One pastor, to make ends meets, has charged himself with the
care of an outside congregation in Clinton county, with a second in Jackson
county, each sixteen miles away from his place of habitat; whilst the other
pastor gives attention to a Bohemian mission at Prairieburg, Linn county, twenty-
seven miles from his home. The pastor of either church built a parsonage, with
all the concomitants of a modern respectable residence, which speaks volumes for
the faith and generosity of the few people, coupled of course with the activity
and popularity of their ministers. The original sum total of outlay on each edi-
fice did not exceed four thousand dollars ; but the energy of the respective clergy-
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men in charge has since added, year after year, and effected such improvements
that at the present time both properties present not only a creditable, but a really
admirable appearance.
Rev. F. McAuliffe, remained three years, when he moved to the western part
of the state, where he still lives, in the diocese of Sioux City. He was next fol-
lowed by the Rev. F. Nolan, who, after a stay of one year, went for a post-
graduate course to the Catholic university, at Washington, District of Columbia.
He is now engaged in teaching at the college in Dubuque.
In November, 1900 the present pastor, Rev. P. H. McNamara, took up the
charge. He was educated for the ministry at the other side of the Atlantic, and
ordained in Dublin, Ireland, July 1898. Coming to the diocese of Dubuque, the
chosen field of his missionary labors, in September of the same year, he received
from the then diocesan. Bishop Hennessy, brief assignments to parishes at As-
bury, Dubuque cotmty, Charles City, Sheldon, Ryan and then his present incum-
bancy. Since his arrival in Oxford Junction he has exhibited to a wonderful
degree the amount of good work anyone can accomplish whose heart and soul
are devoted to a single central object. His vocation and avocation in life has
been nothing else than the good of God's people, and the upbuilding of God's
church. With very little mat?erial means, but with a large amount of mental,
social, and spiritual means, consecrated by the singleness of purpose character-
istic of the true "man of God,*' he has wrought, in season and out of season, year
after year, until a beholder of his work is reminded insensibly of the fate of a
certain flower, famed in phrase, that was pitiably doomed to "waste its sweet-
ness on the desert air." How inscrutable are the way of Providence! Twelve
Apostles once converted the world, — Twelve Apostolic men, not unlike the un-
known pastor of Oxford township, could help immeasurably today in doing the
same thing. "Messis quidem multa-/' May a bountiful Lord send many such
laborers into the ripening field, to "gather his people, as sheaves into the floor
of his bam." Was it not David, the Sheperd King of Israel, who sang the psalm
of his people returning from captivity: "They that sow in tears shall reap in
joy. Going and casting precious seed, they shall come again with joy fulness,
bringing their sheaves with them." The Oxford pastor will doubtless carry a
great big bundle of "sheaves" to the feet of the Judge, in the Kingdom come."
CASS TOWNSHIP.
Cass township has the distinction of being the only township in the county that
has never had a postofiice so far as we have been able to determine. Anamosa,
in Fairview township, being close to the southern border of the township, has been
able to supply the greater part of Cass with the necessities of the commercial
world.
The northern part of the township is much more favorable for agriculture than
the southern, and especially the southwestern. The farms are well improved, and
many of them have substantial improvements and have an air of prosperity. The
stock farm of W. A. Hale, has been quite a business center and has attracted
breeders of fine stock from quite a distance.
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The inhabitants are thrifty and intelligent. The earlier inhabitants were
largely Americans, but in later years, the Germans and the Irish have moved in
and have added to the prosperous conditions of the township.
The first settler in the township was Edward Saams, who came in the year
1844, and settled near the center of the township. Other early settlers were Solo-
mon Thomas, Elisha Dodge, Robert and Smith Condit, John Wallace, Orrin
Harvey, John Preston, A. P. Condit, David Osborne, George Hall, Leslie Hanna,
Alex Crawford, A. W. Barker, Wm. L. Beeks, John A. Reeves, Silas and Jonas
Saams, Linus Osborne, Wm. T. Shaw, M. C. Thompson, John Ogden, A. L. Fair-
banks, John Powell, Thos. E. Belknap, Oliver Doyle, Wm. Bowers, George Gallo-
way, Dexter Cunningham, W. J. Arnold, Fuller, ^Acres, Spencer Pitcher.
George Palmer, E. B. Alderman.
The first child bom in the township was a child of Edward Saams.
The first death in the township was Edward Sams Reeves.
The first marriage in Cass township was Myron Sexton, or Sarton, and Miss
Elizabeth Wilhite, September 29, 185 1.
The first schoolhouse was West Cass, in the year 1846. The name of the first
teacher could not be determined.
The first preaching service was by Rev. Troup, a United Brethren minister in
1841.
The first mill was built in 1848 by Gideon H. Ford, at Fremont. The first frame
building in the township was built by Wm. T. Shaw, on the Osborne place. E.
Bonstell was the first to make music on the anvil, in a blacksmith shop erected
in 1858.
The population of Cass township has maintained its original growth as well as
any township in the county. In i860 the inhabitants numbered five hundred and
ninety-seven. According to the 1905 official census the population was seven hun-
dred and seventy-eight.
THE SCHOOLS.
The schools of the township are as well maintained as in any township in the
county. The school property of the township is valued at nearly five thousand dol-
lars, while the school apparatus is valued at over one thousand dollars. The
school libraries have in all over six hundred volumes. The township school organ-
ization is maintained. Miss Ida Lake is township secretary, and A. L. Fairbanks,
township treasurer. The several directors are: Geo. Watt, Thos. Day, N. P.
Gooley, Fred. Houseman, W. A. Hale, C. B. Darrow, E. H. Grimm, E. Patnode.
CASS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
The First Congregational church of Cass, located near the center of the
township of the same name, is one of the early church organizations of the
county, and was a pioneer in religious activity which has survived the changes
and evolution of the community.
The Cass church was organized in June, 1856, with fourteen charter members,
namely: Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Condit, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Condit, Mr. and Mrs.
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J. S. Condit, Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ogden, Mr. and
Mrs. O. B. Doyl, Mrs. Jeremiah Friend and Mrs. M. C. Thompson. Of this list
of pioneer workers, a few still survive. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Condit resided in
Cass for twenty-one years, and during all of that time were zealous church
workers. Mr. Condit filling the positions of sexton, chorister and Sunday-school
superintendent. Mr. Condit and wife now live in Los Angeles, California. Mrs.
Doyl lives at Utica, Nebraska. J. S. Condit and wife are also numbered with
the inhabitants of earth. The others of the charter members have joined the
Church Triumphant. The first deacon was A. P. Condit. Alexander Crawford,
Spencer Pitcher and George W. Hall were elected trustees and J. S. Condit, clerk.
In the spring of 1855, the nucleus of the Cass Congregational church, first
began to appear upon the horizon of time. At that time Rev. LaDue, the congre-
gational minister in Anamosa, began holding occasional services Sunday after-
noons in a small, unpainted schoolhouse at Cass Center. The schoolhouse was
not lathed or plastered and was without seats. The congregation consisted of two
or three families, a few of the neighboring men and boys came in their shirt
sleeves and bare- footed and sat around on the fence near the building. It is told
by one of the old settlers, that one of the men who sat near enough to hear, said
that Mr. LaDue preached just like any minister; that he had expected to hear a
sermon on infant damnation. In the following Jime, 1855, the church was
organized.
The Sunday-school was organized soon afterward with R. B. Condit as super-
intendent. The library consisted of a new testament and one small hymn book.
There were no lesson leaves, quarterlies or papers. Each child was expected to
memorize as many verses of Scripture as possible and recite them to the teacher
at the school. Some of the scholars would recite several hundred verses at one
time.
Soon after the church was organized, Rev. LaDue left Anamosa and Rev. S.
A. Benton took his place. In the winter of 1857 a protracted meeting was held
in the little schoolhouse which was now completed. The pastor was assisted
in these meetings by Rev. C. S. Cady. Much interest was manifest, and as a
result of the meetings, the church membership was increased. Rev. C. S. Cady
was then called as the resident pastor of the young church and moved to Cass
-•about October i, 1858, and occupied one room at Deacon A. P. Condits house.
At a meeting held November 24, 1858, the congregation decided to build a
church, and M. C. Thompson, Dr. Hoskins, J. A. Palmer, R. B. Condit and O. B.
Doyl were appointed as a building committee. Deacon A. B. Condit offered to
build the church and dedicate it free from debt if the society would furnish the
foundation, sills, and five hundred dollars in cash, and the offer was accepted.
R. B. Condit donated the lot for the church and also for the cemetery. In the
fall of i860, the church was dedicated free from debt.
These were strenuous days in pioneer church life. A letter by Mrs.
O. B. Doyl, written fifty years after the dedication of the new church home,
speaks in tenderness, and from the heart, of that struggling and eventful time,
as follows: "I remember so distinctly how happy we all were that we now
had a home and could worship under our own roof. I also remember when
it was said to be completed, and we ladies gathered to put on the finishing
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touches. We took our dinners and spent the day putting up window shades,
laying down carpet in the aisles, and trimming the desk. We were a happy crowd.
Life before us was then so hopeful. Time has made its ravages, and as I turn
the leaf over, sadness comes to me, for out of that company of twenty or twenty-
five, I cannot think of more than half a dozen still living. All with few excep-
tions are sleeping beside that structure builded fifty years ago."
Rev. Cady left Cass in 1861, and for a period of five months. Rev. Daniel
Savage, a young man from Boston, ministered to the spiritual wants of the con-
gregation. After one years' stay in the wild and wooly west, he was succeeded
by Rev. C. C. Humphrey, who remained until September, 1867. Next came
Rev. W. H. Hayward who remained in Cass three years. Rev. W. H. Barrows
then filled the pulpit for five years, and during his pastorate, the church be-
came self-supporting. Previously, the church had received aid from the Home
Missionary Society. It was about this time that the society bought a house and
lot for a parsonage.
Following Rev. Mr. Barrows, the spiritual welfare of the church was looked
after by Rev. E. C. Downs for two years, then by Rev. James Mitchell for
nearly three years. During the latter pastorate, the Ladies Aid Society was or-
ganized, and has continued to be a valuable organization. In January, 1880,
a call was extended to Rev. George Ritchie, who remained until July, 1882.
During this pastorate, the parsonage was moved to a new lot, and improvements
were added, making it more comfortable and cozy. Rev. B. M. Amsden then,
supplied the pulpit but lived at his home in Manchester. November 11, 1883,
Rev. Daniel Badwell was called to the pastorate and remained for five years.
After his resignation the services were kept up without a regular pastor by-
having an occasional supply until October 10, 1889, when Rev. Barrows was
again called as pastor. At the close of Rev. Barrows' pastorate in 1894, Rev.
S. F. Milliken of the Congregational Church of Anamosa conducted services
each Sabbath afternoon for five years, and during this period, during the year
1895, a series of revival meetings were conducted by N. S. Packard, and at the
close of the meetings, a Christian Endeavor Society was organized with twenty-
four members, and proved to be a very helpful organization. From October, 1899
to July, 1902, the pulpit was filled by students from Coe College. During the
year 1902, the church and society were bereft of seven very helpful members in
the one year.
On December 21, 1902, the church extended a call to Rev. A. B. Keeler and
on April 21, 1903, he was ordained, the services being held at the church. On
account of poor health he resigned, the same taking effect December 28, 1903.
The pulpit was again supplied by students and other ministers until Rev. H. M.
Pinkerton was called as pastor. He remained eleven months, and on May 7,
1905, Rev. George Brimacomb was called to the charge and remained three years,
when the present pastor. Rev. W. R. Bundy became the resident minister. Dur-
ing this pastorate, the church has made substantial progress, and the work
advanced.
The present officers : trustees — George Watt, E. M. Hanna, George Brainard ;
clerk — Mrs. Ruby Ketcham; deacons — W. A. Hale, Harvey House; Christian
Endeavor Society — president, Parke Ogden ; vice-president, Miss Ella Watt ;
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recording secretary, Miss Hazel Bray; corresponding secretary, Miss Hattie
Ketcham; treasurer, Clarence Hanna; organist, Miss Jennie Hale. Ladies Aid
Society — ^president, Mrs. Warren Wallace ; vice-president, Mrs. George Brainard ;
secretary, Mrs. Ruby Ketcham.
OFFICIAL ROSTER, CASS TOWNSHIP.
1852 — Election at the home of William L. Beeks, April 5, 1852. Trustees:
George A. Calloway, Manasseh Reeves, Edward Sams; clerk, John A. Reeves;
justices : Edward Sams and George A. Calloway.
1853 — Trustees: Manasseh Reeves, George A. Calloway, Edward Sams;
clerk, John A. Reeves.
1854 — Trustees: Elisha Dodge, William L. Beasly, George Palmer; clerk,
William T. Shaw; justice, Arad Grover.
1855 — ^Trustees: George W. Hall, George Palmer, William Arnold; clerk,
Robert B. Condit; assessor, William T. Shaw; justice, Thomas E. Belknap.
1856 — Trustees : William J. Arnold, George Hall, E. B. Alderman ; clerk, R. B.
Condit; assessor, E. B. Alderman; justice, W. J. Arnold.
1857 — ^Trustees: R. B. Condit, Dexter Cunningham, E. B. Alderman; clerk,
A. P. Condit; justice. Dexter Cunningham.
1858 — ^Trustees: William J. Arnold, M. C. Thompson, John Preston; clerk.
Dexter Cunningham.
1859 — Trustees: John Preston, M. C. Thompson, James Helma; clerk, E. B.
Alderman.
i860 — ^Trustees: Linus Osbom, Samuel B. Tucker, S. Haskin; clerk, E. B.
Alderman.
1861 — Trustees: E. B. Alderman, Linus Osborn, M. C. Thompson; clerk Dex-
ter Cunningham.
1862 — ^Trustees: Linus Osborn, D. Goes, William Gillilan; clerk, S. B. Tucker.
1863 — Trustees: G. G. Noyes, John Crawford, R. B. Condit; clerk, M. C.
Thompson ; assessor, Linus Osbom ; road supervisors : P. D. Goes, Nelson Van-
horn, WilHam Gillilan, S. B. Tucker, L. Guilford.
1864 — Trustees: R. B. Condit, J. A. Crawford, G. G. Noyes; clerk, M. C.
Thompson.
1865 — ^Trustees: J. A. Crawford, Carso Crane, Linus Osbom; clerk, M. C.
Thompson.
1866 — ^Trustees: J. A. Crawford, A. L. Fairbanks, Thomas Perfect; clerk,
M. C. Thompson.
1867 — ^Trustees : J. D. Bowers, Hiram Thomley, Lyman Guilford; clerk, Carso
Crane.
1868 — Trustees: M. C. Thompson, J. A. Crawford, J. E. Bonstel; clerk, Carso
Crane; road supervisors; M. Sexton, William Bowers, James Sams, John Gris-
wold, G. G. Noyes, William F. Titus..
1869 — ^Tmstees: L. N. Pitcher, O. B. Doyle, William Bowers; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel.
1870 — ^Tmstees : A. L. Fairbanks, M. C. Thompson, S. M. Cole ; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel.
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1871 — Trustees: John Griswold, Carso Crane, S. M. Cole; cleric, J. E.
Bonstel.
1872 — Trustees: R. B. Condit, J. A. Crawford, A. J. Byerly; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel.
1873 — Trustees: A. J. Byerly, Patrick Washington, J. S. Condit; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel.
1874 — Trustees: Linus Osborn, John Griswold, William Bowers; clerk, S. M.
Cole.
1875 — Trustees: William Bowers, John Griswold, Linus Osborn; clerk, S. M.
Cole.
1876 — Trustees: Miles Colton, H. H. Monroe, C. P. Atwood; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel.
1877 — Trustees: William Bowers, Miles Colton, G. G. Noyes; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel; road supervisors: George Smedley, George Thomas, O. T. Day, John
Griswold, H. H. Monroe, L. Guilford, W. G. Gallagher, Rowley.
1878 — Trustees: H. H. Monroe, William Bowers, John Griswold; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel ; assessor, Presley Hanna.
1879 — Trustees: J. A. Crawford, G. G. Noyes, Presl^ Hanna; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel; assessor, A. L. Fairbanks.
1880 — Trustees: G. G. Noyes, J. A. Crawford, Presley Hanna; clerk, A. J.
Byerly; assessor, A. L. Fairbanks.
1881 — Trustees: J. A. Crawford, P. Hanna, G. G. Noyes; clerk, A. J. Byerly;
assessor, A. L. Fairbanks.
1882 — Trustees: G. G. Noyes, J. A. Crawford, P. Hanna; clerk, A. J. Byerly;
assessor, A. L. Fairbanks ; supervisors : H. B. Benton, C. Thomas, Lyman Guil-
ford, E. Ketcham, H. H. Monroe, M. W. Gray, S. C. Mayberry, Presley Hanna.
1883— Trustees: P. Hanna, J. K. Hale, J. A. Crawford; clerk, A. J. Byerly;
assessor, A. L. Fairbanks.
1884 — Trustees: J. S. Condit, P. Hanna, J. K. Hale; clerk, A. J. Byerly;
assessor, A. J. Byerly.
1885— Trustees : J. K. Hale, J. S. Condit, P. Hanna; clerk, A. J. Byerly;
assessor, A. J. Byerly.
1886— Trustees : F. J. Brainard, J. K. Hale, J. S. Condit; clerk, A. J. Byerly;
assessor, A. J. Byerly.
1887— Trustees: J. S. Condit, F. J. Brainard, J. K. Hale; clerk, J. E. Bonstel;
assessor, A. J. Byerly,
1888— Trustees : J. S. Condit, F. J. Brainard, G. W. Gallagher; clerk, J. E.
Bonstel ; assessor, A. J. Byerly.
1889— Trustees : J. K. Hale, William Bowers, J. S. Condit; clerk, C. A.
Thomas; assessor, G. W. Gallagher.
1890— Trustees : J. S. Condit, J. K. Hale, E. H. Stacy; clerk, O. B. Fuller;
assessor, A. J. Byerly.
1891 — Trustees: J. S. Condit, Arthur Hanna, John K. Hale; clerk, W. A.
Ladd; assessor, A. J. Byerly.
1892 — Trustees: A, L. Hanna, John Gerdes, J. S. Condit; clerk. W. A. Ladd;
assessor. A. J. Byerly.
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1893 — ^Trustees : A. L. Hanna, G. A.- Thomas, John Gerdes ; clerk, H. H
Monroe; assessor, G. W. Gallagher; justices: N. P. Clark, William Thomas;
constables : J. S. Condit, Miles Colton.
1894 — ^Trustees : A. L. Hanna, John Gerdes, George A. Thomas ; clerk, H. H
Monroe; assessor, G. W. Gallagher; justice, John Ketcham; constables: F. J
Brainard, J. S. Condit.
1895 — Trustees: John Gerdes, George A. Thomas, A. L. Hanna; clerk, H. H
Monroe; assessor, G. W. Gallagher; supervisors: F. J. Brainard, G. A. Thomas^
J. J. Hermer, G. G. Ketcham, E. A. Osbom, Will Siebles, C. W. losty, L. J.
Hanna, Joe Sampica.
1896 — Trustees: G. A. Thomas, John Gerdes, W. L. Ketcham; clerk, H. H
Monroe; assessor, G. W. Gallagher.
1897— Trustees: W. A. Ladd, John Gerdes, G. A. Thomas; clerk, W. W.
Bray; assessor, W. A. Hale; justices: A. J. Byerly, Miles Colton.
1898 — Trustees: George Thomas, William A. Ladd, John Gerdes; clerk,
W. W. Bray; assessor, W. A. Hale.
1899— Trustees : W. A. Ladd, D. M. Griffin, John Gerdes; clerk, W. W.
Bray; assessor, William A. Hale; justices: A. H. Morey, Matthew Bruce; con-
stables : W. A. Ladd, L. D. Gallagher.
1900— Trustees: W. A. Ladd, D. M. Griffin, John Gerdes; clerk, W. W.
Bray ; assessor, W. A. Hale.
1901— Trustees : W. A. Ladd, D. M. Griffin, A. L. Hanna; clerk, W. W.
Bray; assessor, W. A. Hale.
1902— Trustees: W. A. Ladd, W. A. Hale, W. L. Ketcham; clerk, W. W.
Bray ; assessor, W. A. Hale.
1903— Trustees : W. L. Ketcham, N. P. Dark, J. H. Shields; clerk, D. M.
Griffin; assessor, W. C. Monroe.
1904 — Trustees: Mike Marek, N. P. Clark, William A. Hale; clerk, D. M.
Griffin ; assessor, W. C. Monroe.
1905— Trustees: N. P. Qark, Mike Marek, W. A. Hale; clerk, D. M.
Griffin ; assessor, W. C. Monroe.
1906 — Trustees: N. P. Clark, W. A. Hale, Mike Marek; clerk, W. C. Monroe;
assessor, W. C. Monroe.
1907 — Trustees: W. A. Hale, W. W. Wallace, Mike Marek; clerk, L. D.
Gallagher; assessor, W. C. Monroe.
1908— Trustees : W. W. Wallace, Mike Marek, E. M. Hanna ; clerk, W. W.
Bray; assessor, W. C. Monroe.
1909 — ^Trustees: E. M. Hanna, W. W. Wallace, Mike Marek; clerk, W. W.
Bray; assessor, N. P. Clark. No justice has qualified.
CASTLE GROVE TOWNSHIP.
The northwest township in the county was organized as a separate township
and called Castle Grove, on January i, 1855, the first township election being
held on April 2, 1855, at a schoolhouse. This election is more particularly set
out in connection with the official roster of the township.
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Castle Grove is one of the fertile agricultural townships of the county. The
northern part contains some timber lands, but the timber is being n^idly used
up for fuel. The southern and central part is a splendid farming cotmtry. The
soil raises large crops and the farm buildings give an air of prosperity and com-
fort. The people are of various nationalities, the Yankee, the Irishman, and the
German, mingling freely and in harmony. The inhabitants are thrifty, indus-
trious and persevering.
SOME EARLY PIONEERS.
Among the early settlers of the township, we find the names of the following
pioneers: Benejah Beardsley and his two sons, Alex and Fred Beardsley; Dan
Bartholomew, Philip Mitchell, Horace Downer, T. J. Peak, Joshua R. Clark, Isaac
Avery, Simeon Forman, James McLaughlin, John Drew, Thomas S. Hubbiard,
Nicholas Miller, Dan Mason, John Ansberry, Addison Smith, William Robinson,
Lewis Patton, Sam Dickinson, Robert Hogg, John Blanchard, Ira, Uri and Aaron
Blanchard, George and Joseph Rutherford, Edward Troy, John Stone, Patrick
Mullady, William and Louis Ainsworth, Robert and John Wilson, Dennis Hogan,
D. M. Hogan, James Hogan, John Galligan, Patrick Murphy, Patrick Waddick,
Simon Kehoe, William Kehoe, P. A. Kehoe, John Lahn, James Lahn, Sr. and Jr.,
Kearn Kennedy, John McLees, Thomas and Andrew Cunningham, Horace and
George Gill, Dan, William and Isaac Orcutt, Americus, Jerome and Oscor Scott,
Robert and Hugh Howie, Nelson, George and Albert Higby, Robert and Henry
Henderson, John Heisey, William Rearick, Joshua Witherbee, Chadwicks,
Squires, Riders, Deischers, Slade, Crawls, Highs and others.
The township of Castle Grove has had several places within her borders where
there were headquarters, but no place has approached the dignity of a town.
Sumner was platted by Horace Downer in June, 1855, but the development of
the place was limited to a postoflfice, with perhaps a store and blacksmith shop.
This platted portion of the township was in the central part of section 14. Hor-
ace Downer was commissioned postmaster of Downerville, September 26, 1870,
and the office was discontinued in January, 1872. Albert Higby had a general
store at Sumner in an early day. H. Crosby was one of the early store keepers.
A man named Regor had a blacksmith and repair shop. Tarbor had a shoe repair
shop. Horace Downer operated a steam sawmill.
THE POSTOFFICES.
The Castle Grove postoffice was among the first established in the county.
Benejah Beardsley was commissioned to conduct a postoffice by this name on
February 17, 185 1. No one disputed his right to the emoluments of this posi-
tion until December 19, 1859, when Joshua Witherbee received the appointment.
Benejah Beardsley however soon regained possession of the office by appoint-
ment on June 23, i860. On July 11, 1861, William Peak received the appoint-
ment only to occupy the office for a few months, for we find that on Decem-
ber 23, 1861, the Castle Grove Postoffice was discontinued. On February 10,
1862, the office was reestablished, and William M. Starr was the man in charge.
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Again on December 29, 1865, the office was discontinued. After a short period,
the office was again reestablished on March 30, 1868 with Jacob A, Ommen as
postmaster. Mr. Ommen was followed in succession by Jacob Leesekamp, Octo-
ber 26, 1874; Miss Alice Gadmer, June ist, 1876; James King, March 28th,
1879; Amy Hibbard, January 16, 1882; Charles C. Scott, February 24, 1882;
Howard M. Scott, April 26, 1883; John A. Wright, February 10, 1887; Harm
Rickels, November 26, 1887. The office was finally discontinued November 24,
1903, the mail being directed to Monticello and delivered on the rural mail routes
which were established about that time.
A postoffice had been established at Benejah Beardsley's in 1848 or 1849, *he
mail being carried on the route from Anamosa to Delhi. This office was dis-
continued before the war.
The Argand postoffice, in the northwest part of the township was established
May 7, 1880, with John H. Hopkins as the postmaster. On December 7, 1883,
Edward Turner received the appointment. April 12, 1889, Matthew Murphy
was commissioned to act for Uncle Sam. August 15, 1891, Edward J. McDon-
ald became the local Nasby, and on June 15, 1892, he was succeeded by Arthur
McDonald. The office was discontinued November 16, 1899.
THE MILL.
The Castle Grove Mill was located in the northeastern part of the township
and was built about 1872, by Levi Berlin and Samuel Stambaugh. This was a
grist and flouring mill. The mill was erected at a cost of about ten thousand
dollars. The capacity of the mill was said to be about one hundred bushels of
wheat per day.
THE SCHOOLS.
Castle Grove Township is as well equipped with education advantages for
the children as any of the country districts of the county. On July I, 1868, we
find County Superintendent Stillman reports seven schools in the township with
an aggregate attendance of one hundred and seventy-two scholars. District
number one at Grove Creek, taught by Miss Sadie Berlin, had thiry-six scholars ;
number two, Miss Agnes Matthews, twenty-five pupils; number three. Miss
Jannette Springer, twenty-six pupils ; number four, Miss Carrie Springer, twenty-
eight scholars; number five, Miss Lucy Butterfield, seventeen pupils; number
six. Miss Alice Ke^oe, thirty pupils; number seven. Miss Mary McLees, ten
scholars. Further information of the Castle Grove schools at the present time
will be found on another page under the title of "Educational."
The population of the township according to the i860 census was five hun-
dred and fifty-nine, which in the census of 1905, has increased to seven hundred
and one.
THE DOWNERVILLE COOPERATIVE CREAMERY COMPANY.
This once flourishing dairy institution was organized September 2, 1892,
and for a number of years was one of the most successful organizations ever
existing in the township. The first ofiicers of the mutual company were : presi-
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dent, J. A. McLaughlin; vice president, E. M. Moore; secretary, James F. Laude;
treasurer, A. W. Cramer.
The original stockholders in the company were: J. F. Laude, J. A, Howie,
J. A. McLaughlin, William Galligan, Farney Brothers, Levi Berlin, Thomas
Rearick, E. M. Moore, Romaine Shear, L. Welch, E. E. Orcutt, Frank Howie,
Charles Howie, A. W. Cramer, F. D. McLaughlin, D. M. Hogan, John Burrack,
Patrick Hogan, Joseph O'Rourke, John M. Lang, William Kehoe, John McLees,
O. F. Hosford, John L. Graves, John Haley, Michael Haley, James Haley, C. T.
Berlin, Louis Reager, M. McLaughlin, Arthur Fairbanks, P. H. Evers, Jacob Zim-
merman, John Delay, Leslie Orcutt, F. T. Zimmerman, Peter Drees, E. A. Clark,
J. F. Delay, G. N. Harken, A. F. M. Casper, A. Goodinkoflf, D. E. Kehoe, A. M.
Fairbanks, M. Mutzenburg, J. D. Poppe, J. B. Hoss, C. A. Thomas, Krueger
Brothers, L. G. Hildreth, G. Zimmerman, D. W. Cunningham, James McLees,
J. D. Qark, C. A. Fairbanks, George Gill, John Holler, Rank Filers, Ed Harms,
Pat Kehoe, F. Jossie, James Galligan, John Rickels, M. Nickel, John Hubbard,
John Gillen, J. K. Heikem, F. Hadden.
The new company began business about January i, 1893, and continued to
operate the creamery which had been erected at Downertown in section 14, until
about 1900, when the business was closed up, due to some dissatisfaction that had
arisen. The creamery was later leased to a party from Waterloo who conducted
the business a short time and then sub-let it to D. L. Brundage of Cleveland,
Ohio. Under this management the business was conducted for a short time,
and again the creamery was shut down. Some of the former stockholders of the
cooperative company then hired C. R. Wilder as butter maker and the business
opened up for a short time. In September, 1905, C. R. Wilder leased the cream-
ery plant and has since conducted the creamery business with quite general sat-
isfaction to the patrons.
THE CASTLE GROVE MUTUAL TELEPHONE COMPANY.
This local mutual telephone company was organized in 1901, with E. J. Noble,
president ; vice president, S. M. Hosford ; secretary, John Deischer and treasurer,
James Howie. About this time the Jones County Telephone Company began
to string its wires over the county, and the local organization subsided.
farmers' mutual insurance association of CASTLE GROVE.
This mutual fire insurance association was organized December 17, 1907, but it
was not until March 7, 1908, that the new organization began its business. The
officers and directors were elected and the Articles of Incorporation adopted.
J. A. McLaughlin was elected president; vice president, Andrew Davidson,
secretary, S. M. Hosford; treasurer, J. A. Howie; directors: James Hogan, J. A.
McLaughlin, Dennis Delay, J. A. Howie, Andrew Davidson; adjusters: Arthur
Fairbanks, E. J. Noble, T. F. Kehoe. These are also the present officers of the
association.
The object of the association as stated in its articles of incorporation, is as
follows : *The purpose of this corporation will be for its members to enter into
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contracts to and with each other for their insurance from loss or damage from
fire and lightning, of the property owned by its members, and which shall be
designated in the contracts and policies. But this association or corporation shall
in no case insure any property not owned by one of its own members, and its
insurance shall be exclusive and not concurrent with other insurance compan-
ies, and the reinsurance of risks of similar associations. And the territory within
which this corporation does business shall be confined to Jones county and the
counties contiguous thereto."
Those who became charter members of the association are: M. F. Byrne,
Black Brothers, P. E. Black, Mrs. James Crowley, Maurice Cashman, Patrick
Crowley, J. B. Black, Est., William Crowley, Andrew Davidson, Dennis Delay,
James F. Delay, Roy Dighton, Henry L. Evans, J. M. Evers, John L. Evers,
P. H. Evers, W. P. Fleming, Thomas Fleming, A. M. Fairbanks, Arthur Fair-
banks, A. L. Fairbanks, John Gavin, James Hogan, D. J. Hogan, Mrs. M. Hogan,
W. F. Hinty, W. L. Himes, John Hennessey, G. J. Heiken, Michael Haley, Laur-
ence Haley, James Haley, Patrick Hogan, S. M. Hosfofd, O. F. Hosford, J. A.
Hubbard, J. A. Howie, Frank Howie, S. B. King, Mrs. S. Kehoe, W. T. Kehoe,
Peter J. Kehoe, Thomas F. Kehoe, John H. Lubben, Pat Leonard, Thomas
E. McAleer, Stephen A. McAleer, John McCrea, Art McDonald, M. and F. D.
McLaughlin, J. A. McLaughlin, George McLees, M. S. Murphy, E. J. Noble,
E. E. Orcutt, Joe O'Rourke, P. C. Smith, Thomas Supple, Martin Trimble,
Charles B. Wemimont, John Burrack. These sixty-one original policies repre-
sented risks amounting to ninety-one thousand, four hundred and eighty-one
dollars.
At the end of the first year of business, there were eighty-two members and
risks amounting to nearly one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. The asso-
ciation is increasing in membership and in the volume of business. The secre-
tary is one of the hustling and wide-a-wake young men of the township, and the
members are the substantial land and property owners of the community.
On October i, 1909, this insurance company had risks in force in the amount
of two hundred and thirty-seven thousand, nine hundred and forty-four dol-
lars. The losses paid to date, one hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-
five cents. There were an even one hundred members in the association October
I, 1909.
PENIEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CASTLE GROVE.
In May, 1900. Rev. S. R. Ferguson, missionary of the Presbyterian church
in Iowa, with the assistance of Rev. J. W. Innes, pastor of the Presbyterian
church of Monticello, organized two Sabbath-schools in Castle Grove township;
one at the Moore school, and the other at the Deer Creek Schoolhouse.
On September 2nd of the same year. Captain A. R. 0*Brien of Lemars, Iowa,
under the direction of the Presbyterian Board of Sabbath-school Work, began a
series of evangelical meetings in a tent pitched near the home of James A. Howie.
Captain O'Brien was assisted in the meetings by the singers. Miss Rosetta Day
of Maynard and Mr. C. B. Harvey of Independence, Iowa. The meetings con-
tinued for some weeks with good results.
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On Monday night, October i, 1900, the people voted to ask the Cedar Rapids
Presbytery for the organization of a Presbyterian church in Castle Grove. Ori
Monday evening, October 8, 1900, the church was organized by a committee of
Presbytery with the following charter members : Mrs. James A. Howie, Frank
Howie, Mrs. Frank Howie, John W. Gilligan, Fannie Gilligan, Mrs. Dorothy
Cunningham, Romaine Shear, Mrs. Ada Shear, Alfred Laude, Margaret Noble,
Kate E. Hall, Mrs. Eliza Moore, Mrs. J. A. Hubbard, Charles Howie, Mrs.
Charles Howie, Donald Barclay, Elmer E. Orcutt, Mrs. Kathryn Orcutt, Elmer
J. Noble, Mrs. Elmer Noble, Henry Evans, Pearl Orcutt, Florence Hubbard,
Lulu Howie, Blanche Noble, Elsie C. Noble, Grace D. Noble, Lena Quabet,
Rosa Moore and Lotta Laude.
Plans were immediately projected for the erection of a chapel. Mr. Robert
Howie presented to the Presbyterian board of the church, the present church
site, and the building was begun in the fall of 1900. On March 3, 1901, the
chapel was dedicated by Rev. C. H. Purmort of the Cedar Rapids Presbytery.
The first elders of the new church were : E. E. Orcutt, J. W. GiUilan and E. J.
Noble ; and the first trustees : A. W. Cramer, J. A. Howie, Mrs. Margaret Noble.
The present elders: William F. Hintz, Frank M. Benedict and Elmer J. Noble;
and the present trustees : John Lubben, Frank M. Benedict and James A. Howie.
A flourishing Sunday-school is maintained with William F. Hintz as superintend-
ent and Miss Hazel Hubbard, secretary. Rev. J. W. Parkhill of Lenox College,
Hopkinton, Iowa, is serving the church very acceptably at present as a stated
supply.
THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
This religious organization began its historic existence in 1855, under the
ministrations of Rev. John Miller. Daniel High was the first class leader. The
church building was erected in 1876 at a cost of one thousand, four hundred dol-
lars, and yet stands as a monument of the energy and enthusiasm of its members
at that time. The membership was not large, but it was composed of active,
zealous and loyal workers in the cause. The first trustees were Daniel Deischer,
Henry Heisy, John Heisy, John Wint and Benjamin Rider. Later trustees were
Benjamin Rider, Daniel Deischer, John Heisey, John Kline and Madison Franks.
The removal of its members several years ago, caused. the organization to de-
cline. No services have been held in the church building for over ten years,
though the building yet stands in the southwest part of the township on section
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CASTLE GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH.
The Baptist church was organized in Castle Grove on the 5th of July, 1874.
James Starr was elected clerk and B. F. Searles and Jerome Scott, were chosen
deacons. The church edifice was dedicated September 26, 1876. Some of the
pastors have been : Revs. J. W. Thompson, L. H. Thompson, W. C. Archer, J. G.
Johnson. The organization only lived a few years, and had erected a neat church
building on a commanding spot in section 21. The building was sold to the Ger-
man Lutheran Society in 1884 and is now used and maintained for church pur-
poses by that society.
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THE GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.
The German Evangelical Lutheran Peter and Paul's church to Castle Grove
was organized November lo, 1884, with the following officers: Trustees: John
Stadtmueller, Peter Ommen and Henry Heiken ; deacon, Gerd J. Rickels ; secre-
tary, John Stadtmueller ; treasurer, Gerd J. Rickels. The pastor was Rev. Mardorf .
On November 15, 1884, the newly organized society purchased the Baptist church
building for five hundred dollars and this building and property is now being
maintained by the German society.
The present officers are: Trustees: Harm Rickels, John Siebels, William
Tutken; deacons: Thomas Ulrich, Eibo Eiben; organist, Mrs. Close Willms;
secretary, A. F. ^^. Casper ; pastor. Rev. Hans Naether. There are about fifty
members at present, and the outside appearance of the church at least indicates
prosperity. Regular services are held and the work of the church is flourishing.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
A full and complete history of the Catholic church of Castle Grove may be
found under the title of the Catholic church in Jones county.
OFFICIAL ROSTER, CASTLE GROVE TOWNSHIP.
The first election of officers in Castle Grove township was held at the school-
house near Mr. Beardsley's on the 2nd day of April, 1855. John Scott was
chairman of the meeting called to organize the township and for the election
of officers. John Scott, Horace Downer and Ezra C. Springer were chosen as
judges of election, and Thomas S. Hubbard and Albert Higby, clerks of election.
At the election held on that date, the following persons were voted for as
candidates for the respective offices, together with the number of votes each
received :
Trustees : John Scott, forty-two ; Horace Downer, thirty-six ; Thomas J. Peak,
thirty-eight; Ezra Springer, six; Thomas S. Hubbard, seven; Samuel J. Clark
and Albert Higby, one each.
For Qerk: Monroe Scott, three; Albert Higby, thirty-nine; John Stone,
one.
For Assessor: John Scott, thirty-two; Horace Downer, twelve; J. B. Scott,
three; Thomas J. Peak, seven.
Justices: Thomas S. Hubbard, twenty-seven; Frederick Beardsley, thirty-
five ; Horace Downer, four ; John Scott, twenty-flve ; J. B. Scott, one.
Constables: A. G. Beardsley, forty-one; James M. Scott, forty-one; Thomas
Healy, one.
Supervisors of Highways: Thomas S. Hubbard, thirty-three; William Ains-
wbrth. thirty-three ; M. Scott, five ; J. Scott and P. Mitchell, one each.
For the prohibitory law : For, nineteen ; against, thirty-two.
For the hog law : For, thirty-nine ; against, ten.
For the sheep law : For, thirty ; against, sixteen.
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1855 — ^Trustees: John Scott, Horace Downer, Thomas J. Peak; clerk, Albert
Higby; assessor, John Scott; justices: Thomas S. Hubbard, Frederick Beardsley;
constables: A. G. Beardsley, James M. Scott.
1856 — Trustees: Thomas J. Peak, Horace Downer, Philip Mitchell; clerk,
George Higby; assessor, Thomas J. Peak; justices: Thomas S. Hubbard, F. F.
Beardsley; constables: Alexander G. Beardsley, Nelson W. Tracy; road super-
visors: Thomas S. Hubbard, John McConnon, S. M. Stewart.
1857 — Trustees: Horace Gill, Philip Mitchell, Horace Downer; clerk, George
Higby; assessor, Thomas J. Peak; constables: N. W. Tracy, Norman Water-
house; supervisors: David Morse, F. F. Beardsley, Robert Wilson.
1858 — ^Trustees: Philip Mitchell, Horace W. Gill, J. C. Cooper; clerk, George
Higby; justices: Thomas S. Hubbard, Thomas J. Peak; constables: Nelson W.
Tracy, John A. Field; supervisors: Nathan Crouch, John Ingram, Samuel
Clark.
1859— Trustees • Horace W. Gill, Philip Mitchell, Robert Wilson ; clerk, J. C
Cooper; assessor, Thomas J. Peak; justices: Thomas J. Peak, Horace Gill; con-
stables: Rosolvo Rice, N. W. Tracy; supervisors: E. Troy, George Gates, Gideon
Slade, Lewis Ainsworth, Jonathan Drew, Daniel Deischer, Hume Twamley.
i860 — ^Trustees : John McConnon, Philip Mitchell, John McLees ; clerk, J. C.
Cooper; assessor, Henry Henderson; justice, Timothy Caswell; constables:
George A. Gill, John Delay ; supervisors : T. Caswell, G. M. Gates, J. Neal, John
McConnon, Joshua R. Lathrop, George A. Gill, Henry Heisey.
1861 — Trustees: John McConnon, John McLees, J. S. Lathrop; clerk, Levi
Lindsey; assessor, Henry Henderson; justices: William M. Starr, J. M. Wilson;
constables : Simeon Freeman, George A. Gill ; supervisors : S. M. Stewart, Michael
Hogan, George Ketcham, James Campbell, Horace W. Gill, Daniel Deischer.
1862 — Trustees: Robert Henderson, N. F. Higby, B. A. Shepard; clerk, H.
Henderson ; assessor, John Galligan ; supervisors, S. M. Stewart, Dennis McCor-
mack, L. F. Scott, G. Farnham, Joshua S. Lathrop, George A. Gill, Jonathan
Motter.
1863— Trustees : S. M. Stewart, H. Gill, J. S. Lathrop; clerk, Thomas S.
Hubbard; assessor, Henry Henderson; justices: C. J. Stephenson, D. M. Hogan;
constables : George Butterfield, David Dexter ; county supervisor, Leman Palmer ;
road supervisors : John McLees, P. Mullady, Simeon Kehoe, L. F. Scott, P. Mit-
chell, David Morse, William Titus, A. H. Dow.
1864 — Trustees: S. M. Stewart, H. W. Gill, Joshua Lathrop; clerk, Thomas
S. Hubbard; assessor, Henry Henderson.
1865 — Trustees: Horace M. Downer, Daniel S. Hosford, Joshua S. Lathrop;
assessor, Henry Henderson.
1866 — Trustees : D. S. Hosford, E. D. Eberhart, H. M. Downer ; clerk, Thomas
S. Hubbard; assessor, Henry Henderson; constables: H. Stewart, Robert Den-
nison; supervisors: S. M. Stewart; Simeon Kehoe, J. McLees, George Butter-
field, David Morse, Abram Geht, Henry Heisey, John Delay, Thomas Haley.
1867 — Trustees: S. J. Tucker, William Starr, J. P. Shreck; clerk, Thomas
S. Hubbard ; assessor, Henry Henderson ; justices : Thomas S. Hubbard, Bradley
Stewart ; constables : Henry Stewart, David Sumnerville.
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1868 — Trustees: J. S. Lathrop, S. J. Tucker, J. P. Shreck; clerk, Thomas
S. Hubbard; assessor, John Wilson; constables: P. Hopkins, George Church.
1869 — Trustees: Daniel Deischer, John Wilson, J. S. Lathrop; clerk, Thomas
S. Hubbard; assessor, S. J. Tucker; collector, S. J. Tucker; justices: Thomas
S. Hubbard, J. P. Shreck.
1870 — Trustees: H. M. Downer, H. Heisey, D. Sumnerville; clerk, Thomas
S. Hubbard ; assessor, S. J. Tucker ; county supervisor, Joshua S. Lathrop ; con-
stables: William White, H. Rastede; supervisors: E. Troy, William Kehoe,
Henry Henderson, H. M. Downer, S. J. Tucker, A. Geht, H. Heisey, John Delay,
J. Neil.
1871 — ^Trustees: David Morse, Henry Heisey, H. M. Downer; clerk Thomas
S. Hubbard; assessor, S. J. Tucker; justices: T. S. Hubbard, Henry Henderson;
road supervisors: Levi Berlin, S. H. Smith, John McLaughlin, Lucius Allen,
Robert Howie, John Delay, L. Ainsworth, William Starr, A. Harvey.
1872 — ^Tnistees: John Delay, John McLees, John Cramer; clerk, Dennis
M. Hogan; assessor, AL McLaughlin; collector, John McLaughlin; road super-
visors: H. B. Hubbard, P. Waddick, H. Henderson, George Springer, David
Morse, Isaac Orcutt, A. V. Scott, John Delay, E. Krueger, A. Harmes.
1873 — Trustees: John Galligan, John Cramer, J. B. Scott; clerk, D. M.
Hogan ; assessor, James Riley ; collector, George Kennedy ; justices : Nicholas
Kehoe, John Fields.
1874 — ^Trustees : H. M. Downer, S. H. Smith, John McLaughlin ; clerk Mich-
ael McLaughlin ; assessor, William Wilson ; collector, Thomas A. King.
1875 — ^Trustees: John Galligan, S. H. Smith, H. M. Downer; clerk, Henry
Henderson; assessor, T. A. King; justices: J. A. Fields, N. Kehoe; constables:
E. F. Hubbard, E. Moore ; road supervisors : E. Long, P. A. Kehoe, L. Ainsworth,
A. Cramer, D. Morse, M. McLaughlin, A. Scott, P. A. Hogan, Sol Merriman,
A. Danks, Thomas Haley.
1876 — ^Trustees : A. Ommer, Henry Henderson, John Galligan ; clerk, D. M.
Hogan ; assessor, John Cramer ; collector, James Riley.
1877 — Trustees: John Galligan, John Delay, D. E. Hogan; clerk, D. M.
Hogan; assessor, John A. Cramer; collector, L. F. Scott; constables, Dennis
Delay, D. M. Hogan ; justices, Thomas Cunningham, N. Kehoe.
1878— Trustees : H. B. Eberhart, J. H. Cramer, M. McLaughlin ; clerk, H. M.
Downer; assessor, R. A. Standish ; justices, Thomas S. Hubbard, James Riley,
constables, James Lane, Alfred Kepperd.
1879 — ^Trustees : H. B. Eberhart, George A. Gill, M. McLaughlin ; clerk, H. M.
Downer; assessor, J. H. Cramer; justices: T. S. Hubbard, J. H. Riley; con-
stables : C. F. Hubbard, Ed Moore.
1880 — Trustees: George A. Gill, M. McLaughlin, H. B. Eberhart; clerk,
H. M. Downer; assessor, J. H. Cramer; collector, N. B. Scott; road supervisors:
R. Eberhart, James London, Thomas Kennedy, J. H. Cramer, Ed Mundock,
Michael Berlin, Henry Heisey, John Delay, Thomas Rearick, W. M. Starr,
Allison Danks.
1881 — Trustees : James F. Laude, M. McLaughlin, George A. Gill ; clerk, H.
M. Downer: assessor, J. H. Cramer; collector, John Stadtmueller ; justices:
M. McLaughlin, John Wint; constables: E. M. Moore, F. Kromminga,
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1882 — Trustees: Henry Henderson, M. McLaughlin, George A. Gill; clerk,
Moses Campbell; assessor, F. A. Scott; justices: H. M. Downer, George A.
Gill ; collector, John Stadtmueller.
1883 — ^Trustees: John Galligan, Bentley Clark, James F. Laude; clerk, Moses
Campbell; justices: D. M. Hogan, Joseph King; assessor, George Kennedy.
1884 — Trustees: William Kehoe, John Galligan, John Stadtmueller; clerk,
Moses Campbell; justices: Archie W. Cramer, Moses Waddick; constables: Frank
McDonald, William A. Hogan.
1885 — ^Trustees: John Stadtmueller, John Galligan, William Kehoe; clerk,
Moses Campbell; assessor, J. B. Clark; justices, Moses Waddick, Henry Hender-
son: road supervisors: James Delay, Moses Waddick, Patrick Church, J. A.
McLaughlin, Calvin Berlin, Robert Howie, Henry Henderson, John Delay,
Charles Curtis, J. G. Rickels, F. Kromminga.
1886 — Trustees: A. W. Cramer, John Stadtmueller, William Kehoe; clerk,
Moses Campbell; assessor, Moses Campbell; justice, L. F. Scott; -constables:
James Howie, David Lundon.
1887 — Trustees: William Kehoe, James Howie, A. W. Cramer; clerk, Wil-
liam A. Hogan; assessor, William G. Wales; justices: M. A. Waddick, John
Stadtmueller; constables, David Church, M. Kennedy.
1888 — Trustees: William Kehoe, James Howie, A. W. Cramer; clerk, J. C.
McLees.
1889 — Trustees: James Howie, A. W. Cramer, W. F. Kehoe; clerk, J. C.
McLees; assessor, W. G. Wales; justices, M. A. Waddick, N. Gadmer; con-
stables : John Haley, W. C. Kehoe.
1890 — Trustees: James Howie, Nicholas Kehoe, A. W. Cramer; clerk, J. C.
McLees; justice, Frank McAleer; supervisors: Levi Berlin, M. A. Waddick,
William Krueger, Elmer Noble, John Fahrni.
i8qi — Trustees: James Howie, Nicholas Kehoe, Joseph King; clerk, J. C.
McLees : assessor, William G. Wales ; constables, W. C. Kehoe. John Haley.
1892 — Trustees: Matt Miller, Joseph King, Nicholas Kehoe; clerk, James
McLees; assessor, A. W. Cramer; justices, George McLees, Paul Black.
1893 — Trustees: H. Rickels. J. M. King, A. W. Cramer; clerk, J. C. McLees;
assessor. W. F. Kehoe; supervisors: Fred Youssee, W. C. Kehoe, John Lange,
A. W. Cramer, Grant Gill, John Burrack, Harm Rickels, Ed Harms.
1894 — Trustees: J. M. King, N. Kehoe, A. W. Cramer; clerk, J. C. McLees;
constable, M. Kennedy; assessor, W. F. Kehoe.
1895 — ^Trustees: J. A, Howie, N. Kehoe, A. W. Cramer; clerk, J. C. McLees;
assessor, F. D. McLaughlin ; supervisors : Fred Jossie, P. A. Kehoe, O. F. Hos-
ford, E. M. Moore, Ed. Oark, Frank Howie, Albert Heiken, John Burrack,
J. D. Poppe, J. D. Cunningham, Ed Harms.
T896--Trustees : A. W. Cramer, J. H. Howie, Nicholas Kehoe; clerk, J. C.
McLees; assessor, F. D. McLaughlin; justice, P. E. Black; constables: L. P.
Waddick, George Miller.
1897 — Trustees: J. A. Howie, A. W. Cramer, N. Kehoe; clerk, J. C. McLccs.
1898 — Trustees: M. A. Waddick, A. W. Cramer, N. Kehoe; clerk, J. C
McLees ; justices, John Stadtmueller, W. F. Smith ; constables : D. Ctmningham.
A. McDonald.
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1899 — Trustees: A. W. Cramer, Folkert Hedden, Matt Miller; clerk, J. C.
McLees ; assessor, Harm Rickels ; constables : Frank Welch, Frank Miller.
1900 — ^Trustees: James Hogan, A. W. Cramer, Frank Hedden; clerk, J. C.
McLees ; assessor, M. A. Waddick ; justice, E. C. Orcutt ; constables : John Brown,
W. A. Krueger; supervisors; Arthur Fairbanks, John Lubben, Albert Heiken,
Jr., John Burrack, A. V. Scott, F. D. McLaughlin, Chris Schatz, Peter J. Kehoe,
J. C. McLees.
1901 — Trustees: James Hogan, J. A. Howie, J. C. McLees: clerk, A. W.
Cramer; assessor, S. M. Hosford; justices Ed. Qark, Samuel Pfeil; constables;
John Brown, M. F. Byrne.
1902 — Trustees: A. L. Fairbanks, John Burrack, James Hogan; clerk, A. W.
Cramer ; assessor, S. M. Hosford ; supervisors : D. J. Hogan, W. C. Kehoe, S. M,
Hosford, G. Neiderhauser, John H. Lubben, Frank Howie, Will LeQere, John
Delay, Albert Heiken, Austin Stadtmueller.
1903 — Trustees: James Hogan, Arthur Fairbanks, John Burrack; clerk, W.
A. Hogan; assessor, M. A. Waddick; justices: H. C. Bohlken, J. H. Lubben;
constables: M. Haley, Lowell Black.
1904 — Trustees: Arthur Fairbanks, James Hogan, John Burrack; clerk, J. B.
Qark.
1905 — Trustees: James Hogan, John Burrack, Arthur Fairbanks; clerk, J. B.
Qark.
1906 — ^Trustees : John Burrack, W. T. Kehoe, Arthur Fairbanks ; clerk. Ford
Clark; superintendents of road districts: Charles Howie, N. E.; E. F. Eiben,
S. E.; M. J. Hogan. N. W.; J. A. Heiken, S. W.
1907 — ^Trustees : John Burrack, W. T. Kehoe, Arthur Fairbanks ; clerk. Ford
Qark; assessor, P'red Cramer; justices, William Waddick, Henry Bohlken.
1908 — ^Trustees: Arthur Fairbanks, W. T. Kehoe, John Burradc; clerk. Ford
Qark; assessor, Fred Cramer.
1909 — ^Trustees: E. F. Eiben, James McLees, M. A. Waddick; clerk, James
F. Hogan ; assessor, Fred Cramer.
CLAY TOWNSHIP.
AN HONORED RESIDENT AND PIONEER.
A history of Qay township without more than a passing reference to her
first citizen, Hon. John Russell, would be lacking in one of its distinguishing
features. It has been alloted to few men during their life-time, to be entrusted
with the political confidences of the people to a greater dq^ree than that accorded
to this honored citizen of the county and late resident of Clay township. He
was bom in Fifeshire, Scotland, October 8, 1821, and was a son of Robert and
Mary Williams Russell. He came to America in May, 1842, and immediately
proceeded to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained about a year working
at his trade, that of stone mason, on the new city waterworks then being built.
In 1843, he entered the commercial business in Columbiana county, Ohio, and
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remained in this occupation until 1852. On November 29, 1849, John Russell
was married to Miss Margaret Feehan. In 1852, he came west and located on
the farm in Clay township, Jones county, which remained his home until his death,
which occurred October 10, 1908.
John Russell was the first clerk of Clay township. He was later elected a
member of the general assembly of Iowa, and as representative from Jones county,
served five consecutive terms, the longest continuous service in the history of the
county. In 1868, he was elected speaker of the house. In 1870, he was elected
state auditor, and in 1872, was reelected to the same office by a flattering majority.
In October, 1879, he was elected state senator from Jones and Cedar counties,
and served four years in this capacity. He then retired to private life on his
farm in Clay township.
As a public man, Mr. Russell's strength did not lie in oratory or in literary
display. His strength and popularity was founded on the simplicity of his life,
his devotedness to the cause of the people, and his practical common sense. Per-
sonally plain but affable, unassuming but trustworthy, gentle in manner, kind and
hospitable by nature, he has been crowned with the laurels of honor, and has
enjoyed the proud title of "Honest John."
On October 10, 1908, after a continuous residence of fifty-six years in Clay
township, Hon. John Russell was called to his eternal home, and his body laid
to rest in the Wyoming cemetery. Honored in life, his memory is revered in
death. He brought honor to Jones county and distinction to Clay township, and
the sacred spot where his ashes lie buried, will be surrounded by hallowed mem-
ories and cherished by an appreciative people.
EARLY SETTLEMENT AND HISTORY.
Clay township compares favorably with other townships in Jones county.
The inhabitants are industrious, thrifty and intelligent. The land is rather more
hilly than Wayne township, for example, but is less so than Washington or
Richland. The east and north sides of the township has more or less timber land,
but this is rapidly being cut off and the land being cultivated. The southwestern
part of the township contains more level prairie land.
The first permanent settlers of Oay township were David Killam, John E.
Holmes, Benjamin Collins, Truman Brown and Madison Brown. These, it is
said, were here before 1838. John E. Lovejoy, later of Scotch Grove, came in
1839; P. D. Turner and Horace Turner came the same year, and in the following
spring. Lyman Turner, their father, made this township his home. From 1840
to 1850, a few settlers came in. but in the latter year, the tide of emigrants which
came pouring west, reached that place, and Qay township was rapidly settled
from that time on. In i860 the population of the township was six hundred and
thirty-three. The population according to the 1905 census was six hundred and
twenty-six.
Numbered among the early settlers of the township, in addition to those
named were : John French, Thomas Moran, Henry Carter, John Dennison, Wil-
liam Eckler, M. C. Walters, Tommy Hanna, George Delong. Joseph Tomlinson,
Silas Conklin, Thuel and Aaron French, Richardson, Christopher Lawless,
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John Russell, Bead Johnston, Patrick Flannigan, Malachi Kelly, Patrick Donahue,
Michael (or Soldier) Kelly, Thomas CuUigan, Peter DeWitt, Isaac DeWitt,
John Ormsby, Japeth Ingraham, Alex Delong, Jesse Davis, Samuel C. Reid,
William Reade, Enoch Reade, Louis Reade, John Jenkins, Sloan Hamilton, John
Barclay, James Kirkpatrick, Samuel B. Reid, Andrew Duncanson, Andrew
Scroggie, Patrick O'Brien, James L. Hall. There were also "Timber" Dan
Bamhill and "Prairie" Don Bamhill, being named from the location of their
residence; "Grey" John Supple and "Black" John Supple, the one driving a
team of grey horses, the other a team of black horses.
Of all the names here given, William Eckler is the only one now living in
Qay township. John Dennison lives near Onslow. John Russell died in Octo-
ber, 1908. Samuel B. Reid died in October, 1909. James Kirkpatrick lives
in Onslow as also does Joseph Tomlinson. M. C. Walters died in the spring of
1909.
William Eckler came to Jones county first in 185 1, but returned to New York
state and in the year following, in company with his family and M. C. Walters
and family, came to Jones county and made the frontier land their permanent
home. ]\Ir. Eckler has resided in the township continuously ever since.
CLAY MILLS.
This once .busy center, began its existence about 1852. In that year, the
spot in section 10 which afterward became a village, was inhabited, but it was
not until the year 1853 or 1854 that William Eckler and James Hall erected the
dam on the Maquoketa river and built the sawmill. This was run by water power.
About 1863 or 1864, William Eckler and M. C. Walters built a steam mill which
was then used for a sawmill, the old water mill about that time being fitted up
for a grist mill. Both of these mills were famiHar places to the older settlers of
Clay township. It was these mills that made Clay Mills a place on the map and
gave the spot the name of village. The village went by the name of Farm Creek
as well as Clay Mills. M. C. Walters kept the first store, and in fact the only
store. James Halland William Eckler built the first houses. On May 30, 1867,
the plat of the village was filed for record.
CLAY MILLS POSTOFFICE.
On November 7, 1863, the postoffice was established at Clay Mills, with
Myron C. Walters as postmaster. Mr. Walters was reappointed November 19,
1888, and on December 24, 1900, upon the removal of Mr. Walters from the
village, William N. Tippett, was commissioned postmaster. The office was dis-
continued February 28, 1902. At this time the rural route from Onslow was
established. The mail to the Qay Mills postoffice was carried on the mail route
from Onslow to Cascade.
OTHER MILL HISTORY.
Mineral Creek which runs in an easterly direction through the southern
part of Clay township, also claims some honors in the erection of saw and grist-
mills in the early history of the township.
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At the bottom of what is familiarly known as Vassar Hill once stood a mill
of some prominence. In the summer of 1852, Joel B. Taylor built a sawmill on
Mineral Creek on the south side of the creek and on the west side of the road.
It was a one and a half story building and was fully equipped with a Mulay
saw, the only saw in the mill. The lumber in the old Madison Center schoolhouse
in Madison township was sawed at this mill. J. F. Parks ran the mill in the
winter of 1853 and the spring of 1854. In 1855 or 1856 John Vassar purchased
the mill, and it was from his operation of this mill that the hill to the south of
it received its name. About i860, the mill was abandoned for mill purposes
and the building torn down.
The Hubbard sawmill was built on Mineral Creek about 1854. This stood
on land now owned by Stephen Walsworth, either in or near section 35. This
mill was built by Hubbard. It only ran for a few years and was then torn
down.
The Diamond Mill was built on Mineral Creek further east. It was erected
about 1850 or 1851 by Bert Diamond, and was always owned and operated by the
builder. It was torn down in the latter part of the '60s.
Bodenhofer's Mill is better known to more of the later residents of the town-
ship. It stood on the banks of Mineral Creek on the Lime Kiln Hollow road,
in the southwestern part of section 28. This was built about 1852 and was a
sawmill and also a gristmill. It was the only gristmill on Mineral Creek and was
liberally patronized. Jacob Bodenhofer was the proprietor. The mill was torn
down some time in the 8o's.
THE CREAMERIES.
THE JAMES HALL CREAMERY.
The first creamery erected in Clay township was built by James L. Hall in
section 17. in the summer of 1873. The creamery building was not a preten-
tious affair. It stood on the east side of the road and about forty rods south of
the location of the old Carpenter creamery building. About the year 1876, the
pioneer creamery building was moved north to a location on the east side of the
road almost opposite the old creamery building. In the organization of this first
creamery, the farmers in the adjacent community were rather skeptical of the
advisability of such a movement. The idea of raising calves on skim milk from
a creamery was a new one, in the minds of some of the farmers, and the idea
spelled ruin to their prosperity. The creamery was started however. Henry
Haddock was connected with certain parts of the creamery business. James
L. Hall was the pioneer butter maker in the township. The venture proved
successful beyond the dreams of the most hopeful, and so much so that the former
skeptics were now the most eager to keep a good thing when they saw they had
one.
THE CARPENTER CREAMERY.
After running the creamery a few years, Mr. Hall leased the building to
Carpenter Brothers who ran it a short time, and then built the creamery on the
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west side of the road, this building being the one known in the modern age as the
Carpenter Creamery. After operating the creamery for a few years, the busi-
ness passed into the hands of G. L. Lovell of Monticello who leased the building
to Charles Gilbert. Some of the farmers had not received one hundred cents on
the dollar from Carpenter Brothers, and when a short time later in their dealings
with Gilbert, this experience was repeated, it is no wonder the faith of the dairy-
men in the maintenance of the creamery business began to be shaken. A short
time after the financial downfall of Ctilbert, J. L. Bader of Cascade, purchased
the creamery and conducted the business in a straightforward manner for a year
or two and then closed the building. This building is now used for a barn, and
stands on its original foundation on the premises of James Keating on section i8.
THE BADER CREAMERY.
The Bader Creamery was erected by J. L. Bader in the spring of 1882 and was
conducted by its proprietor and founder for a number of years. The institu
tion did a flourishing business, and profited by the development of the dairy
business under the old Carpenter Creamery. Nothing is left of the building now
except a few boards standing at random, the remnant of an age that is past. This
building on the north west comer of the crossroad, north of S. B. Reids resi-
dence in section 17.
THE CLAY COOPERATIVE CREAMERY.
The Clay Cooperative Creamery was organized in the spring of 1896, the
stockholders being composed of many of the most prominent and responsible
farmers in the community. The officers were : president, G. B. Hall ; vice-presi-
dent, Henry Null ; secretary, C. L. Butler ; treasurer, J. Z. Mackrill ; directors :
John Dennison. D. W. Russell, T. L. Green and Chris Bramer. A. F. Carrier
was butter maker. There were seven milk haulers, viz : James A. Scroggie, John
Dew, John Stahlberg, Ed Sutton, Tom Hood, Albert Young and David
Kennison. For about eleven years the business grew and flourished. A mod-
ern building equipped with modem machinery had been erected on the east side
of the highway on the premises of J. Z. Mackrill in the northwest comer of sec-
tion 29. The natural evolution of the dairy business, the introduction of the hand
separators, the increasing expense of operation, the costly method of hauling the
milk, soon began to influence the profits in competition with other creameries.
These institutions became narrowed to churning stations, where no cream was
separated. The hauling of cream simplified the dairy industry. Consequently
the Cooperative Creamery was dissolved in the summer of 1907, and the cream-
ery building and machinery sold. The stockholders realized less than fifty cents
on the dollar of their stock. The creamery brought in many thousands of dol-
lars to the farmers of the community during its existence.
At the present time, there is no creamery in operation in Qay township. In
fact there are only three creameries in operation in the eastern half of Jones
county, one at Oxford Junction, one at Center Junction and one at Scotch
Grove.
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CLAYFORD.
This place now exists only in name. As a matter of fact it was never more
than a postoffice, and in this capacity, the early inhabitants will tell you that the
name is very familiar. The office was established October ii, 1861, and John
W. Jenkins was appointed postmaster. On December 12, 1872, Hannah Jenkins
was commissioned to perform the official duties of this position. The office was
continued at the residence of the postmistress in the northeast corner of sec-
tion 7. On January 25, 1894, the name of the chief officer at this mail station
was changed, and Robert Snyder appears as the one in charge. The last
person to be commissioned in this office, and the one following Robert Snyder,
was his wife, Hannah Snyder, who again assumed the official title Jime 16, 1899.
On September 30, 1902, the office was discontinued. The rural mail delivery
from Onslow was established at this time, and furnished the patrons with daily
mail. Prior to this time, the mail was carried on the route from Onslow to
Cascade and was delivered about three times a week. There is no postoffice in
Qay township at the present time.
THE FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLAY.
The Free Will Baptist church was the earliest church organization eflfected
in Clay township. On March 12, 1853, a meeting was held at the house of Myron
C. Walters in Clay Mills for the purpose of organizing a church. A sermon was
preached by Elder Donaldson from i Corinthians III : 9th "Ye are God's Build-
ing." After the sermon, the elder proceeded to ascertain how many wished
to be organized into a church society. Six presented themselves with letters, viz :
Reuben Green, William Hill, Myron C. Walters, Susan Maria Green, Margarette
Walters; one presented herself for baptism, viz: Mary Hill.
After an examination regarding their faith, and finding they all agreed in
sentiment with the Free Will Baptist church, the articles and covenant as laid
down in the creed of that denomination having been adopted, the right hand of
fellowship was given by Elder Donaldson, and prayer was offered by him.
M. C. Walters was chosen clerk, and the name of "Free Will Baptist Church
of Clay" was adopted. M. C. Walters was chosen to apply, in behalf of the new
organization, for membership in the quarterly meeting to be held with the Buena
Vista church in April, 1853, and to represent the congregation at that time. On
the request of Mr. Walters, made to that body, the Clay church was accepted as
a member of the quarterly meeting.
M. C. Walters was chosen deacon and continued in that office until his re-
moval to New York state about 1900. The present deacon is William Eckler,
and the present clerk is W. N. Tippett. The deacons chosen at different times
were: M. C. Walters, Lewis Beckwith, S. L. Carpenter, William Eckler. The
clerks have been : M. C. Walters, C. W. Sutton, W. N. Tippett. The present
trustees are : William Eckler, G. B. Hall, W. N. Tippett.
The church prospered in the early days of the township history and in due
time, about 1865, a church building was erected at the location known as Frozen
Hill. This building yet stands, and in the more recent years has been known
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as the Bethel Presbyterian church, though yet owned by the Baptist society.
Here the community met for the worship of God and the study of His Word for
many years. After some years the use of the building was generously offered
to the Bethel Presbyterian church who used it conjointly with the Baptist church.
Among the pastors of the Clay Baptist church have been : Elders Reives, Slater,
Maxon, Anderson, O. E. Aldrich and George Bullock.
After many years of public testimony to their love for their Saviour, the Bap-
tist congregation became so reduced in numbers by deaths and removals that
they could no longer maintain regular public worship and this condition has
continued to the present time. The organization has been continued, though no
active part has been taken in the continuation of regular services.
THE BETHEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The broad expanse of prairie lying north of the early village of Wyoming,
had among its earliest settlers, several Presbyterian families mostly from Scot-
land and the state of Ohio. Previous to the year 1861, occasional services were
held, Rev. George E. Delevan, who was in charge of the Presbyterian church at
Wyoming at that time, was the preacher. This beloved pioneer died at Wyom-
ing in the spring of 1861.
By invitation of some of the members of the Presb}'terian faith, Rev. James
L. Wilson of the Dubuque Presbytery, located at Scotch Grove, commenced
preaching at John Paul's schoolhouse, known now as the Valley School, three
miles north of Wyoming, in the same township. Rev. Wilson's first sermon
there was on Sunday. June 16, 1861. Arrangements were made for the contin-
uation of the services, and the appointments were maintained regularly once
in two weeks until the close of the year, 1864.
At the beginning of the year 1865, the meetings were removed to a more
central location and to a more commodious schoolhouse in Clay township, two
miles further north. The attendance and interest at once increased. A part of
the time services were held at the former location where the attendance and inter-
est was well maintained. At the new place now called Defiance Hill, the first ser-
mon was preached January 8, 1865. Besides the regular preaching of the Word,
(he Lord's Supper was frequently administered here, the session of the Scotch
Grove Presbyterian church with the minister from the same place having charge
of the sacramental service. On these occasions, as well as at the regular commun-
ion services at Scotch Grove, a considerable number of the people from this
community were received as members of that church.
Previous to the commencing of the meetings at Defiance Hill schoolhouse,
there was farther north, in the eastern part of Clay township, an organization of
the United Presbyterian church, called Mt. Hope church, supplied with preaching
by Rev. A. J. Allen, beginning in 1856. He having ceased to labor, and there being
no regular supplies, the organization became languishing and disbanded in 1865.
The records of that noble little church were lost in the fire which burned the
house of the elder of the church, Mr. James Kirkpatrick, in the year 1859. This
elder and the chief part of the members of the United Presbyterian organization
a few years later became identified with the Presb)rterian meetings being held at
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Defiance Hill. These members of this early organization were mostly from the
Presbyterian church of Ireland, but some were from Scotland and other places.
In April, 1870, a petition was sent to the Dubuque Presbytery signed by a
nimiber of members of the Presbyterian society, and some others, asking for the
establishment of a Presbyterian church at this place. Accordingly the Presby-
tery in session at Jesup, on the 27th of April, 1870, appointed a committee to
attend to the matter at some time convenient to themselves and to the people. This
committee consisted of Rev. Samuel Hodge of Hopkinton, Rev. James L. Wilson,
of Scotch Grove, and Hon. John McKean, a ruling elder of the Anamosa church.
The organization was effected at Defiance Hill, June 14, 1870, under the name
of the Bethel Presbyterian church, the following persons entering the new or-
ganization by letter, mostly from the Scotch Grove church, viz: James Kirk-
patrick. Mrs. Jane Kirkpatrick, William H. Chatterton, Mrs. Hilah S. Chatter-
ton, Stephen R. Streeper, Matilda B. Streeper, Andrew Scroggie, Mrs. Grace
Scroggie, Andrew Duncanson, Mrs. Marion Duncanson, David H. Orr, Henry
P. Chatterton, Mrs. Alice P. Chatterton, Mrs. Jane Young, Mrs. Ann Reid, Mrs.
Margaret Paul, Mrs. Mary J. Hawley, Mrs. Mary Neelans. John Paul was ac-
cepted as a member on profession of faith.
The organization was perfected by the election of Andrew Scroggie and
Stephen R. Streeper as ruling elders. John Paul and James Kirkpatrick were
elected deacons.
Of the above named charter members, five are still living, namely: James
Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Ann Reid, Mrs. Mary J. Hawley, Mrs. Mary Neelans and
John Paul.
The new church prospered and in due time the question of building a house
of worship arose, and was discussed. A site for the building was chosen, and
one thousand, two hundred dollars subscribed toward its erection, but about that
time the railroad came to Onslow and the organization of a Presbyterian church
at that place had a tendency to check the building plans of the Bethel church.
About the same time, the Bethel church was generously offered the use of the
Free Will Baptist church building. This offer was accepted, and in this build-
ing, the Bethel Congregation has held regular services ever since.
The following ministers have served as pastors since the organization of the
church, namely: Revs. J. L. Wilson, John Rice, Henry Cullen, Alexander Scott,
J. A. Hahn, Philip Palmer, J. R. McQuown, P. A. Tinkam, and the present pas-
tor, S. B. McQelland.
The ruling elders have been : Andrew Scroggie, Stephen R. Streeper, Andrew
Duncanson, Thomas Hamilton, John Neelans. William Fletcher, John Denni-
son, Isaac N. French.
The deacons have been : James Kirkpatrick, John Paul, A. P. Ormsby, John
Dennison, David H. Orr, Ahab DeWitt, Joseph W. Orr, Robert Scroggie, R. W.
Chatterton, C. S. Ames. In 1901, the office of deacon was abolished, and the
office of trustee established. The trustees have been: James Kennedy, C. S.
Ames, R. W. Chatterton, C. L. Butler, Robert A. Scroggie.
The church organization for 1909, is as follows:
Session : Pastor and moderator. Rev. S. B. McQelland ; elders, John Neelans.
W^illiam Fletcher and Isaac N. French.
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Sabbath School : Superintendent, R. W. Chatterton ; assistant superintendent,
William Fletcher ; secretary and treasurer. Miss Alice Green ; organist, Miss Ina
Young; assistant organist, Miss Alice Green.
Ladies Missionary Society : President, Mrs. Adella E. McClelland ; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy; secretary, Mrs. Fannie Hicks; treasurer, Mrs. Hat-
tie Chatterton ; secretary of literature, Mrs. Mary H. Neelans.
The church has pursued the even tenor of its way, sometimes making vigor-
ous strides, at other times more lagging in its progress, but still advancing in the
work to which it has been called, an uplift in the community and an honor to the
Kingdom. A series of revival meetings were closed in the early part of October,
1909, which added much to the enthusiasm and strength of the church, the meet-
ings being conducted by Evangelist Foote, with the assistance of the regular pas-
tor. Rev. S. B. McQelland.
The Bethel church has never had a resident pastor. During the first ten years
or more of its organization, the pastor of the Scotch Grove church also served as
pastor of this church. About 1883 or 1884, the Bethel church and the Onslow
church united in the support of the same pastor, the regular services in the Bethel
church being held every Sunday afternoon, the pastor residing at Onslow. This
relation has continued down to the present time. The church building is located
in the southwest corner of section 17, in Clay township, the location being
known locally as PVozen Hill. The church is a central institution in the com-
munity, and is the nucleus around which clusters precious memories and the in-
fluences for good which predominate in the country on all sides.
LATTER DAY SAINTS CHAPEL.
The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints built a church
in section twenty-two, near the present residence of Ed Green in Qay town-
ship in the summer of 1897. This is a plain building twenty-eight by thirty-six
feet and appearing about like the average country church. The building cost
about one thousand two hundred dollars.
The local organization or "branch" at the time, had about fifty members,
widely scattered throughout Jones and Jackson counties. Other branches have
been organized within the same territory, and members in each case have united
with the nearest church. At the present time there are about forty-seven mem-
bers, many of these still widely scattered.
The following are some of the early members : Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson ;
Mrs. Louisa Myatt, Mariner Maudsley, Edwin Lowe, Miss Lizzie Haller, Mrs.
Maria Kelsall, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Green, Rachel M. Green, Susan Green,
Willard Thomas, Amelia Thomas, John Wier. Cora Wier and D. J. Dierks.
The church has always depended largely upon missionaries sent out by the
general church for its ministers. Among these were the following: John S. Roth,
of Grinnell, Iowa ; William T. Maitland, of Des Moines, Iowa ; O. B. Thomas, of
Lamoni, Iowa; John W. Peterson, Lamoni, Iowa; Oscar Case, Morehead, Iowa;
Fred Farr, of Greene, Iowa; J. B. Wildermuth, Osterdock, Iowa; James Mc-
Kerman, Muscatine, Iowa.
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The church was dedicated by Joseph Smith and J. W. Peterson. The former
is president of the reorganized church and a son of the original founder of the
church established in 1830. A large congregation of people from all the sur-
rounding country gathered to hear the man whose name had become famous
because of its association with the Orientalism of Utah.
THE VILLAGE OF CANTON.
The village of Canton, properly speaking is only partly in Clay township, but
its early history is so much associated with the early history of Clay township,
that a history of the township is not wholly complete without some reference
to this once thriving business center. The assistance of Levi Waggoner, now
eighty years of age, has been helpful in securing the data of this sketch of the
Canton history.
Canton is one of the earliest settled towns in this part of the state. As early
as 1843 we find J. E. Hildreth making improvements at the present site of Can-
ton. In that year the Canton water power was first improved by J. E. Hildreth
who built a sawmill on the east side of the Maquoketa River; this mill he operated
about two years when it was destroyed by fire. After the fire he sold his interests
in and around Canton to J. J. Tomlinson, and took up a new location on the
present site of Ozark, four miles north, on the north fork of the Maquoketa
River.
J. J. Tomlinson thus became the sole proprietor of what there was of Canton
about 1844 or 1845, ^^^ i" addition became the owner of about eight hundred
acres of land adjoining. Mr. Tomlinson now began to rebuild the sawmill on a
much more extensive scale, a mill with a capacity of one thousand feet of lumber
per hour. In connection with the sawmill Mr. Tomlinson built a machine shop
for the manufacture of all kinds of wood work, such as wagons, lumber, furni-
ture, all kinds of lath work. The capital invested amounted to over twenty
thousand dollars in this business alone. Mr. Tomlinson also built a grist mill
and woolen factor}' on the west side of the river soon after or about 1845. This
is the beginning of the mill about which the memory of so many of the early
settlers of Gay township centers, and which was one of the most flourishing in-
stitutions in eastern Iowa for many years.
Mr. Tomlinson's business was now flourishing on both sides of the river.
At that time there was neither grist mill nor sawmill nearer than Dubuque on the
north, and Anamosa on the west. And in those early days, Iowa was a wheat
country, and wheat was a staple crop which gave Mr. Tomlinson a range of coun-
try more than forty miles in extent from which to draw his supply of wheat. His
mill was never allowed to stand idle, day or night. The same was true of his
sawmill and machine shop. The two mills together gave employment to over
sixty men, in one way and another.
The merchandise business was not a whit behind the business of the mills.
Between the years of 1852 and 1857, there were six well kept stores in Canton.
The principal one was conducted by E. M. Franks. His stock consisted of gen-
eral merchandise of the amount of eighteen thousand dollars. The Smith Bros.,
Tom and James, had stock of the value of ten thousand dollars. Tomlinson &
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Smith had a stock of six thousand dollars. A Mr. Dawson, two thousand five
hundred dollars. J. Brenneman, two thousand dollars. William Lowe, hardware,
two thousand dollars. William Hannah, drug store, two thousand dollars. There
were also at that time four practicing physicians, towit. Dr. Thomas Gracey, Dr.
Johnson, and the Belden partnership, consisting of M. J. Belden and W. P. Belden.
About the same time E. M. Franks also conducted a packing plant through
the winter season, with a capacity of handling one hundred hogs per day, al-
though he handled dressed hogs only. This was the practice in that period of
time, in all sections of the country, both east and west. Mr. Franks was also an
extensive dealer in cattle and hogs and at most any time in the period of which
we write, during the '50s, from three hundred to five hundred head of cattle
could be counted in his yards at any time. He also had from three hundred to
six hundred hogs on feed at any one time. In fact Canton was a first-class mar-
ket town for anything the farmer had to sell in the line of cattle, hogs, wheat,
com, oats or hay. The store provisions were hauled from Dubuque, and the
store keepers frequently took such products in trade for groceries and dry goods.
In those days, by far the greater number of teams were ox teams. Mr. Tom-
linson at all times kept not less than twenty yoke of cattle at work drawing logs
from the woods to his mills, and a less number in delivering the lumber to
Dubuque, Cascade and other points.
These were years of Canton's greatest era of prosperity. About the year
1854, the grist mill, together with the woolen factory burned to the ground. In
1855, ^^^- Tomlinson rebuilt the grist mill, but the woolen factory was never
rebuilt.
About the year 1866, the Midland Railroad was projected, and the business
men began to look for new locations along the line of that road. E. M. Franks
bought several hundred acres about eight miles west of Canton along the pro-
posed line of the road, and including the present site of Onslow. Mr. Franks now
began the disposal of his shelf goods in quantities to suit purchasers. His fresh
goods he moved to his new location at Onslow.
Mr. Tomlinson also made his escape to the gold regions of the Rocky Moun-
tains, after selling his holdings to Dr. George Trumbull of Cascade at a price
of less than one-half he could have obtained before the Midland road was built.
From this time on, Canton's decline was rapid.
It was about this time that Dr. Trumbull sold his grist mill to Robert Becker,
who in turn sold a one-half interest to a Mr. Peck, forming a partnership under
the name of Becker & Peck. Under this partnership the business was con-
ducted for several years, or until wheat became so scarce that the parties could
no longer find it profitable to continue in business. Becker & Peck now <lissolved
partnership, and in the deal the grist mill remained in the hands of Robert Becker
who operated in a small way on the slim supply of wheat that constantly grew
less till the manufacture of flour was entirely discontinued. From that time,
the mill was used as a feed and custom mill only. Mr. Becker, now thoroughly
disgusted with his mill property, traded to one Alex. Clark, for a half section of
land in Kansas. Mr. Clark was a Scotchman with considerable business tact,
and with his pleasing address he won friends, and for many years conducted a
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flourishing business grinding feed. Mr. Clark continued to operate the mill
until about six years ago when he disposed of his mill property, and since that
time, the mill has changed hands several times. L. B. Parshal is now the owner
of the property, and if the present plans mature, the Canton mill property will be
so revolutionized that its early owners would not recognize the place. There is
no better water power in eastern Iowa than at Canton. There is a good water
fall, and the foundation for the dam could not be improved. At this point, the
banks of the river are of solid rock, and the bed of the river is of the same solid
material. A dam properly built would stand for ages.
THE CANTON POSTOFFICE.
The Canton postoffice was established on July 15, 1844. Since that date when
John J. Tomlinson received the first commission, the postmasters with the dates
of their appointment, have been, in their order: Robert B. Hanna, December 10,
1853; Miles F. Simpson, April 25, 1854; Thomas Smith, July 29, 1854; Thomas
Gracey, November 4, 1856; WiUiam A. Smith, August 24, 1857; William B. Han-
na, July 20, 1859 J John W. Dillrance, August 22, 1859 ; W. B. Hanna, August 19,
1861; James B. Camp, March 7, 1865; Leander B. Sutton, October 24, 1865;
John W. Reade, June 5, 1867; John Baldwin, October 8, 1868; John T. Bayliff,
June 15, 1869; George W. Kelsall, December 31, 1872; Lyman B. Parshall, March
30, 1886; John C. Ripperton, July 19, 1887; Alfred Frey, December 21, 1891 ;
Hannah E. Ripperton, April i, 1893; Alexander Clark, April 19, 1895; Ned
L. Sutton, June 4, 1897; Robert H. Buchner, the present incumbent, April 23,
1908.
The Canton of today is but a remnant of its former prosperity. The old
buildings are the undisputed habitation of bats and owls. One store, the mill,
one blacksmith shop and a few scattered dwellings, including the schoolhouse
and the mill, constitute the Canton of 1909.
OFFICIAL ROSTER CLAY TOWNSHIP.
1857 — Election held in Sutton schoolhouse, April 6, 1857. Trustees: S. R.
Howard, J. P. Ames, Isaac DeWitt; clerk, John Russell; justice. L. G. Drake;
constables, C. C. Sutton and C. Hicks.
1858 — Election held in Sutton schoolhouse, April 5, 1858. Trustees: Joseph
P. Ames, S. R. Howard, and A. Cowing ; clerk, John Russell ; justice, Joseph Ty-
ron; constables, William B. Gress and C. C. Sutton; supervisors: No. i, Luke
Potter ; No. 2, Bethuel French ; No. 3, James Hall ; No. 4, Cyrus Anderson : No.
5, B. Sharpless ; No. 6, Piatt Jennings.
1859 — Election held October 12, 1858. Trustees: A. Gowing, B. C. Slater
and Thomas Johnson; clerk, James L. Hall; assessor, S. R. Howard; justices,
Joseph Tyron and J. Z. Mackrill ; constables, William B. Gress and R. B. Willcox.
i860 — ^Trustees: J. Ingraham. Richard Hayner and Isaac DeWitt; clerk,
J. C. French; assessor, Charles F. Vinceqt; constables, Cornelius Hicks and
William A. Smith.
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1861 — Trustees; Jacob Bodenhofer, E. A. Cohoon and Joseph P. Ames;
clerk, J. L. Hall; assessor, S. R. Howard; justices, John Brinimon and William
H. Peck; constables, George Howard and R. B. Willcox.
1862 — Trustees: William Paul, Japhat Ingraham and J. W. Jenkins; asses-
sor, S. R. Howard; clerk, J. L. Hall; constables, R. B. Willcox and H. Smith.
1863 — Trustees: S. R. Howard, James McDaniel, Patrick Donahue; clerk,
William G. Jenkins; assessor, E. E. Brown; justices, E. Harwood and Joseph
Tyron; constables, John Potter and B. Grogan.
1864 — ^Trustees: William Eckler, Albert Howard; clerk, William Paul.
1865 — ^Trustees: G. A. Hanna, A. Howard and William Paul; clerk, R.
Hayner; justices. William Eckler, A. Harwood; assessor, E. E. Brown; con-
stables, R. B. Willcox, John Patton.
1866 — ^Trustees: Albert Howard, Hiram Dubois and C. W. Sutton; clerk,
James L. Hall ; assessor, E. E. Brown ; constables, John Patton and R. B. Willcox.
1867 — ^Trustees : Albert Howard, C. W. Sutton, Daniel Canole ; clerk, James
L. Hall; assessor, E. E. Brown; justices, William Eckler and R. G. Dye; con-
stables, J. F. Sutton and David Moore.
18(58— Trustees : A. Howard, J. L. Hall, S. L. Carpenter; clerk, W. H. Peck;
constables, David McDaniel and J. F. Sutton; justices, William Eckler, A.
Isenhart.
1869 — Trustees : Albert Howard, William H. Chatterton and William Gates ;
clerk, W. H. Peck; assessor, James L. Hall; justices, William Eckler and A.
Isenhart ; constables, W. A. Eckler and W. A. Smith.
1870— Trustees : J. D. Bamhill, W. H. Chatterton and J. H. McDaniel ; clerk,
W. H. Peck; assessor, E. E. Brown; justice of the peace, C. W. Sutton; con-
stables, W. A. Eckler and George Carr.
1871 — ^Trustees: J. H. McDaniel, Eldad Cooley and E. E. Brown; clerk,
W. H. Peck ; assessor, J. D. Barnhill ; justices, John Brinneman, John Dennison ;
constables, George Carr and John Vasser.
1872 — ^Trustees: James McDaniel, Eldad Cooley and W. N. Tippett; clerk
W. H. Peck ; assessor, E. E. Brown ; constables, John Vasser and J. W. Bacheler.
1873 — ^Trustees: James McDaniel, Eldad Cooley and W. N. Tippett; clerk,
W. H. Peck ; assessor, J. D. Bamhill ; constables, James Johnson, D. H. Butler ;
justices, E. A. Cohoon and George Reyner.
1874 — ^Trustees: R. B. Weaver, L)anan Osbom and Isaac DeWitt; clerk,
J. D. Bamhill; assessor, John Dennison; constables, D. H. Butler and J. R.
Johnson.
1875 — ^Tmstees: Lyman Osbom, William Eckler, William Donahue; clerk,
J. D. Barnhill;. constables: Orrillo Green and William Johnson.
1876 — ^Tmstees: L3rman Osborn, W. N. Tippett and William Eckler; clerk,
C. W. Hawle3rm; assessor, E. E. Brown; justice, J. D. Bamhill; constable, Joseph
Hanna.
1877— Tmstees : Lyman Osborn, W. N. Tippett, W. G. Donahue; clerk, J. F.
Lee; assessor, E. E. Brown.
1878 — ^Trustees: Lyman Osbom, William Eckler and James McDaniel; clerk,
J. L. Hall ; assessor, E. E. Brown ; justice, J. D. Bamhill.
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1879 — Trustees: William Eckler, J. Z. Mackrill and James McDaniel; clerk,
D. W. Russell; assessor, John Dennison; justices, Richard Hayner and John
Dennison; constables, P. F. Brown and W. B. Mackrill.
1880 — Trustees: William Eckler, James McDaniel and G. A. Hanna; clerk,
D. W. Russell.
1881 — Trustees: William Eckler, E. E. Brown, J. F. Lee; clerk, D. W. Rus-
sell ; justice, John Dennison ; constable, T. K. Paul.
1882 — Trustees: J. F. Lee, William Eckler and E. E. Brown; clerk, D. W.
Russell.
1883— Trustees : W. N. Tippett. William Eckler and E. E. Brown; clerk, D.
W. Russell.
1884 — Trustees: W. N. Tippett, William Eckler and E. E. Brown; clerk, D.
W. Russell.
1885 — Trustees: C. W. McMaster, William Tippett and James Scroggie; clerk,
T. K. Paul.
1886 — Trustees: C. W. McMaster, James Scroggie and W. N. Tippett; clerk,
T. K. Paul.
1887 — Trustees: James Carpenter, William Tippett, C. W. McMaster; clerk,
Robert Scroggie ; assessor, James Scroggie.
1888— Trustees: C. W. McMaster, W. N. Tippett, J. L. Carpenter; clerk,
R. A. Scroggie.
1889 — ^Trustees: C. W. McMaster, J. L. Carpenter and Allen Duke; clerk,
J. F. Cohoon; justices, John Herrington and L. L. Gee; constables, J. B. Hutton
and Charles Herrington.
1890— Trustees : Ahab DeWitt, C. W. McMaster and H. A. Duke; clerk,
Lyman Osborn; assessor, J. L. Carpenter; justice, L. L. Gee; constable, J. F.
Cohoon. «
1891 — Trustees: L N. French, Ahab DeWitt, H. A. Duke; clerk, Harbison
Orr; assessor, John Dennison; justice, John Dennison.
1892— Trustees : L N. French. Ahab DeWitt, D. H. Orr; clerk, H. Orr;
assessor, John Dennison.
1893— Trustees : Ahab DeWitt, L N. French, D. H. Orr; clerk, Harbison Orr;
assessor, John Dennison.
1894— Trustees : L N. French, Ahab DeWitt, D. H. Orr; clerk, H. Orr; as-
sessor, John Dennison.
1895— Trustees: W. H. Orr, Ahab DeWitt, and L N. French; clerk, H. Orr;
assessor, John Dennison.
1896 — ^Trustees: L N. French, William Fletcher and W. H. Orr; clerk,
Harbison Orr; assessor, John Dennison.
1897— Trustees: J. F. Russell, W^illiam Fletcher and W. H. Orr; cleric, H.
Orr; assessor, Michael Lawless; constable, Nathan Watters.
1898 — Trustees: James Hamilton, J. F. Russell and William Fletcher; derk,
H. Orr.
1899 — ^Trustees: James Hamilton, John F. Russell and William Orr; clerk,
J. R. Kennedy.
1900 — Trustees: J. A. Hamilton, W. H. Orr and E. A. Green; clerk, J. R.
Kennedy ; assessor, Michael Lawless.
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1901— Trustees : J. A. Hamilton, E. A. Green and W. H. Orr; clerk, J. R.
Kennedy; assessor, Samuel Orr.
1902— Trustees: J. R. Reid, J. A. Hamilton, E. A. Green; clerk, J. R.
Kennedy.
1903 — ^Trustees: E. A. Green, J. R. Reid and J. A. Hamilton; clerk, J. R.
Kennedy; assessor, Sam Orr.
1904— Trustees: B. W. Streeper, J. R. Reid and E. A. Green; clerk, J. R.
Kennedy; assessor, Sam Orr.
1905— Trustees : B. W. Streeper, L. E. Mead and E. A. Green; clerk, J. D.
Xeelans ; assessor, Joe Orr.
1906 — Trustees: B. W. Streeper, L. E. Mead and E. A. Green; clerk, J. D.
Xeelans; assessor, Joseph Orr.
1907 — ^^Trustees : John A. Orr, James R. Kennedy, B. W. Streeper; clerk, J. D.
Xeelans; assessor, Joseph Orr.
1908— Trustees- B. W. Streeper, J. A. Orr, J. R. Kennedy; clerk, J. D. Nee-
lans; assessor, Joseph Orr.
1909 — ^Trustees, James Lowham, J. A Orr, J. R. Kennedy; clerk, John
English ; assessor, Joseph Orr.
FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP.
(The following excellent history of Fairview township, and of its towns and
institutions, was written and prepared by Mr. J. E. Remley of Anamosa. The
people of this township, and readers of this history, now, and in future years, will
gratefully acknowledge their gratitude to Mr. Remley for the splendid service
he has rendered to the present generation and to posterity. The history is well
written, shows the untiring labor of careful research, and will be found valuable
both as a record and as a reference. Fpr this kind service in behalf of the history
of the Jones county by Mr. Remley, the editor adds his appreciation.
— ^The Editor.)
Fairview township is situated in the western tier of townships in Jones county,
Iowa, with Cass township on the north, Jackson township on the east, Greenfield
township on the south and Linn county on the west.
In early days about two-thirds of the area was in timber, mainly oak of the
best quality. Along the rivers were heavy forests containing thousands of cords
of wood. Now most all the timber has been cut and the land placed under cul-
tivation. What once was a forest is now a fine well improved farm, worth from
one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars per acre. A few years ago the
farmers used wood for fuel but now since, wood has become so scarce a large
number use coal, which is transported from the towns. Cord wood is worth in
the market from five to six dollars and fifty cents per cord.
The soil consists of a rich black loam with a clay soil and is especially adapted
for raising com and all small grain. The north half of the township is rolling
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with few clay hills, while the south half is much more level. There is but little
non-tillable land in the township.
The Wapsipinicon River enters at the northwest comer of the township and
runs in a southeasterly direction, and enters Jackson township near the center of
the township line. Buffalo creek enters a little west of the center of the north
line of the township, running in a south and southeasterly direction, uniting with
the Wapsipinicon just west of the city of Anamosa. The township is well drained
and has very little low wet land which is not subject to be cultivated.
There is one city, one town and one village in this township. Anamosa is
a city of the second class, the county seat of Jones county and an active, prc^es-
sive business center. Stone City is a small unincorporated town without officials
The large quarry interests are its chief importance. The village of Fairview is
one of the oldest settlements in the county, situated four miles from Anamosa on
the old military road to Martelle. This old village and land mark is gradually
declining as no improvements are being made and in time no doubt the haml^
will be eliminated.
1909 ASSESSMENT.
There are twenty thousand, six hundred and ninety-six taxable acres of land
outside of Anamosa, with a net actual valuation of nine hundred and forty-seven
thousand, two hundred and forty-four dollars accruing to the assessed valuation
for the year 1909.
The total moneys and credits given to the assessor for the year 1909 in Fair-
view outside of Anamosa was one hundred and six thousand, four hundred and
thirty-two dollars.
The following is a list of the number and actual assessed value of the cattle
and hogs in Fairview township as reported by the assessor for the year 1909:
No. Actual Value.
Colts, I year old 104 $ 3,332
Colts, 2 years old 85 4424
Horses, 3 years old and over 490 26,326
Stallions 5 2,600
Mules and asses 9 504
Cattle in feeding 20 404
Heifers, i year old 314 31876
Heifers, 2 years old 208 3,546
Cows 1054 25,972
Steers, i year old 204 3,304
Steers, 2 years old 79 1,896
Bulls 45 1,722
Swine, over 6 months old 2440 13,049
Sheep, over 6 months old 283 975
COMPARATIVE MARKET PRICES.
The following prices were paid at Anamosa, Iowa for ear com, oats, barley
and wheat during the month of June, 1907, 1908 and 1909:
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June 1909.
Ear Com • $<>«75
Oats 55
Barley 65
Wheat 1. 15
June, 1908.
Ear Com $ '75
Oats 46
Barley 40
Wheat 1.00
June, 1907.
Ear Com $ .50
Oats 41
Barley 50
Wheat 75
EARLY SETTLEMENT OF ANAMOSA AND FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP.
From a letter to Mr. Edmund Booth from Gideon H. Ford of Webster City,
Hamilton county, this state, under date of October 4, 1872, we quote the following
in regard to the early settlement of Anamosa and Fairview township : "The first
settlement of Buffalo Forks was commenced in April, 1838, by George Russ and
Sherebiah Dakin, from the state of Maine. They laid claim to sections 2, 3, 4,
one-quarter of 9 and one-quarter of 10. There were with them John H. Bart-
lett, wife and child, also a man named Smith, another named Carpenter and David
G. Dumars. These came in the spring of 1838. Three of the above died that
season, viz., Russ, Smith and Carpenter. Dakin was a millwright; worked in
Dubuque. Then came George H. Russ, son of George Russ.
"I arrived at Dubuque on the 22d day of October, and fell in with S. Dakin.
He was going to Buffalo Forks next day, and asked me to go with him. He
wished to sell his interest in the claim. So, in company with Timothy Davis, we
started for the Forks, arriving next day in a snow-storm, the snow three inches
deep. I bought Dakin's interest in the claim for one thousand dollars. Young
Russ held his father's share. Young Russ soon got homesick and I bought his
share for five hundred dollars. I then sold two-thirds of the claim to Davis
and Walworth for two thousand dollars. This was in January, 1839. We com-
menced building the mills next spring. John H. Bartlett, I am told, is now living
in Dubuque."
Mr. Edmund Booth writes : "I arrived at 'the Forks,' as they were familiarly
termed — meaning Buffalo Forks of the Wapsipinicon, often abbreviated to Wap-
sie — in August, 1839. If I remember aright, it was on the i8th day of August.
I had reached Dubuque from the East some days previously, and made inquiry
for George H. Walworth. I was referred to Timothy Davis; sought and found
him in his little lawyer's office on Main street. He informed me he was a part-
ner of Walworth, and that the latter was at the 'Buffalo Forks of the Wapsi-
pinicon.' He proposed to let me have a horse which he wished to send to the
Forks, and suggested the next day for starting; distance, forty miles. He in-
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formed me that a new road, known as the United States Military Road, was
being laid out to the Forks, and seemed to apprehend no difficulty about the way.
This Timothy Davis was, some years later, member of the Lower House of Con-
gress for Iowa. He died about a year ago, of paralysis (1872). He was a
lawyer from Missouri, a man of good intellect, clear head, and at the time.
1839, the best lawyer in Northern Iowa. His nature was ever kindly.
"In the course of one evening, after seeing Mr. Davis as above described,
he called on me at Tim Fanning's log tavern, the only hotel in Dubuque, and
informed me that two men would start next morning for Iowa City, then just
laid out as the capital of the Territory of Iowa. They were going to attend
the first sale of lots. Next morning we started accordingly. The name of one
of the men was Bartlett — whether the Bartlett mentioned by Ford or not, I do
not know ; but judge not, as he did not appear to have any knowledge of the
road, nor did he mention aught to lead one to suppose he had acquaintance with
the locality of the 'Forks.' The name of the other man I have forgotten; but
he was a blacksmith of Dubuque. For the journey, I had a large, strong horse,
not spirited, but good. The two men were mounted on ponies. They rode at
a continual slow trot, the natural pace of a pony. My horse taking longer
strides, I allowed them to proceed some distance, and then a trot brought me up
to them. And so it was all the way.
"As before said, the military road was being laid out. Congress having ap-
propriated twenty thousand dollars. We found a newly broken furrow along one
side of the road, which, by the way, was merely a track through the grass of the
prairies, and a mound of turf raised three to four feet high at intervals of a half
mile, more or less. At about noon he reached the house of Mr. Hamilton, two
miles or so before reaching Cascade. Here we took dinner atld fed the horses.
There was only a woman — probably Mrs. Hamilton — in the house, and they had a
small field in cultivation, no larger than a garden to appearance. The man was
away. Continuing on, we soon reached Cascade. South of the river (North
Fork of the Maquoketa) was a log cabin belonging to Mr. Dulong, an urbane
Kentuckian. North of the river was the unfinished frame hotel of Mr. Thomas,
and these were all the buildings of the place. Mr. Dulong was an elderly man,
apparently forty to fifty years of age. He died some years since. Continuing
on, it began to grow dark before we reached the timber of the South Fork of
the Maquoketa.
"Passing through the timber, the new road being pretty good, the light from
the chinks of a log cabin at last gave us assurance of human habitation, and a
chance for a night's lodging. It proved to be the dwelling of Daniel Varvel, situ-
ated on the South Fork of the Maquoketa, and where is now a portion of the
town of Monticello. On the maps of the place, it is designated as Monticello.
Reaching Varvel's, he put the horses in a stable, near by — a log stable, by the
way, with a loft above for hay. In the house were some dozen or fifteen men,
in the employ of the U. S. government contractor, and engaged in laying out
the Military Road. They had come thus far with the work. Varvel prepared
supper. He was at that time wifeless, and no woman in the house. Supper of
ham and eggs, com dodgers and coffee. Breakfast, ditto, the next morning,
eaten with a hearty relish after such a long ride. No beds for us with this
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crowd. After an hour's talk, Varvel took the lantern and led the way to the
stable. We mounted the ladder outside, and with our saddle-blankets for cov-
ering, slept on the hay (we three) till morning, the horses feeding and resting
beneath us. And this was my first night in Iowa after leaving Dubuque. A word
here about Varvel. He was from Kentucky; married some years after this, our
first meeting; with George H. Walworth he laid out the town of Monticello,
south of the river.
"His children grew up and removed further West. He followed them a few
years since, and I do not know whether he is living or dead. After breakfast,
we left X^arvel's, as the place was called until Monticello was laid out and named.
The road was tolerably well marked by wagons. About noon that day we found
the only plowed land we had seen after leaving Dubuque. This second piece of
plowed land, then just broken, consisted of five acres, the claim belonging to David
G. Dumars, and the identical ground on which the county fair has been held for
some years. Passing by this, and when about the intersection of what is now
Main and High streets, Anamosa, a large-sized man came lazily along the road
toward us. We stopped and made inquiry. He told me to take a road to the
right a few rods further on. That man was David G. Dumars. He went on
toward his breaking; and, bidding good-bye to my two companions, who were
bound for the new capital of the Territory and prospective wealth through the
purchase of town lots, I turned into the road to the right. A mile and a half
brought me to the log cabin referred to in G. H. Ford's letter, the body which
had been built by Riiss & Dakin. Here I found G. H. Walworth, who was an
old acquaintance and about fifteen to twenty other persons engaged in building
a dam and saw-mill. The day was Sunday, and the people scattered, some read-
ing, some lounging about, some gone to 'the Prairie,' as the settlement south of
the timber was called. That settlement then consisted of eighteen log dwellings,
and extended along the south border of the timber from Highland Grove to
Viola ; of course, these two latter names not being given till years afterward. I
have related my journey as above merely to convey some idea of the aspect of
the country, buildings, etc., and have named every dwelling we saw after leav-
ing the little hamlet of Dubuque.
"I give here a list of the early settlers of the township; most of the list was
obtained from John G. Joslin, ten years ago: Qement Russell and family ar-
rived in July, 1837; John G. Joslin and family, in August, 1837; Ambrose Parsons
and family, in May, 1838; Benonia Brown and family, in October, 1838: l.a-
throp Olmstead and family, in April, 1838; James Parsons, with his son Silas,
in April, 1838; John Leonard and wife arrived in the autumn of 1838; Calvin
C. Reed, in 1838; Gideon H. Peet, in the spring of 1839; Henry Van Buskirk,
iii the spring 1839; Samuel Kelly, in 1838; Edmund Booth, in August, 1839;
Henry Booth, in May, 1840; Col. David Wood, in June, 1840."
MRS. PEET's letter, 1842.
Copy of Mrs. Abigail Peet's letter to Mrs. Philip Burlingham of Cortland,
N. Y., from where the Peets had emigrated to Jones county, Iowa, in 1839.
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Pameho (Fairview), March 19, 1842.
Dear Daughter: I improve this opportunity to write and inform you that
we are all enjoying very good health at present and hope to hear the same from
you. We have had a light winter in comparison to what we used to have there.
We have not had snow to hinder anyone's going into the woods to draw rails
or timber anywhere they please. It has been all gone as much as four or five
weeks, and is now very warm.
Our folks tapped our sugar trees last Monday so we could make our own
sugar. We have made eighty-five pounds and they think they shall have syrup
enough by night to make up the one hundred. I think it is as nice as we ever
made. Gideon and Julius are both making for themselves.
The tops of the wheat is killed considerable but your father was over to it
this morning and he says it is sprouting up thick and the ground is dry enough
to go to plowing. Tell Philip if he was only here to begin his Spring work he
could not help being highly delighted. I little thought when I left you that it
would be so long before I saw you again, but I begin to fear that you will wait
so long to get a great price there, that you will lose more here by having the
best chances taken up that are convenient to timber and water, etc. It is a great
chance for making a little money go a great ways in buying good land.
There is an abundance of excellent prairie and considerable timber land not
taken up yet that can be got at the land office for one dollar and twenty cents per
acre. Anyone would be very foolish to chop and clear land here when there are
thousands and thousands of acres already cleared ; and no stump roots or stones
to molest you, but there is plenty of excellent stone in the timber and in ledges
along the water courses. Your father often used to say he would like to have
the stone by itself and the land by itself ; he now has his wish.
They say there is a ledge about two or three miles from here on the bank of
the river that rises twenty or thirty feet high and appears to be in regular layers.
Some of the men have dug out some to use about buildings which they say is
very beautiful stone, others say that it is a quarry of Turkish marble but how it
will turn out I cannot say.
Julius is pleasantly situated and has a nice little black-eyed wife, she is young
— ^will be eighteen next August, but she seems to understand business very well
and keeps things snug. Martin went to board with them soon after they com-
menced housekeeping and is there now. Your father often says that he would
rather have Julius' place than his old farm and I do not think Julius would trade
if he could, to go back there to live ; he has one hundred and sixty acres which
cost two hundred and forty-five dollars.
I have made fifty-five cheeses this last season, and the boys took thirty of
them to Dubuque and sold them for a shilling per pound, then bought three
kettles to make sugar in, also one dish kettle for six pence per pound, four pairs
of men's high shoes for twelve shillings per pair. Your father says they are the
best shoes he ever had.
Pork and grain are very cheap here now.
Philip, I will write a little to you. If you cannot sell to get all of your money
down, leave it in good hands where you can depend upon it when promised, get
what you can, and sell oflf your stock, they will bring cash at some price. If you
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should leave any in that way, get the man to deposit the money in some good
permanent bank and get a certificate of deposit and have him send it to you.
There is a farm that lies between Martins and ours with some people living on
it who have paid for two eighties and have a claim on a considerable more. I
hear they have borrowed the most of the money to pay for it, so we think it might
be sold pretty reasonable. There is another one of the same family that lives
the other way between Gideon and us which if you could get would suit you, but
I do not know as he would sell, there is no danger however, but what you could
suit yourself. I would not advise you to buy land of any man there that owns
land here, for the chance is as good for you as it is for others. We have not
the money now but we calculate to help you all as fast as we can. There are sev-
eral men owing, of whom we can get nothing but work, so we thought it best
to have a little more house room ; they got out and hewed the timber for it week
before last. We calculate to build a room on the east end of this eighteen by
twenty, then a back room the whole length of the house for bed rooms and other
conveniences. Gideon got out the timber the same week for his house, twenty
by thirty-two, I believe.
If you come you had better get a good strong wagon and team that is stout
and true, and if you could, get another good horse, and strong light wagon for
your family if Harvey should come with you. It is best to have two in company,
if anything should happen you could assist each other or if any of your friends
wish to come tell them they had better start, for if they once get here they cannot
help being suited. You will have to travel through a great many places that you
will not like and many more that you will like but if you can get here and buy
land as good as the best at ten shillings per acre it will pay all.
I think there is as little complaining of sickness here as I ever knew in any
place, but I think it would be a good plan to make a jug of syrup such as I made
when I was at your home, and get some boxes of Persian pills, a box or two
of Davids plasters, they are very valuable.
I wish you could get me a patent wheel head. I cannot hear of any here, but
they say they make wheels of both sorts a few miles from here.
I want you to write immediately and let us know your calculations.
I remain your ever affectionate mother,
Abigail Peet.
wild game in fairview township.
At the present time there is but very little wild game in Fairview township
and the hunter and sportsman has very little game to hunt. What game there is
consists of a small variety, such as rabbits, squirrels, a few prairie-chickens and
wild ducks. On account of the stringent laws protecting the quail quite a num-
ber have accumulated until it is a common occurrence to see a small bevy along
the road-side.
The Anamosa Eureka under date of October 28, 1909, published an article
entitled **A Realm of Paradise" which vividly sets out the conditions of the early
game of Fairview township, which is as follows:
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A REALM OF PARADISE.
A Few Experiences in Hunting and Fishing in the Early Times.
"In a recent interview with Mr. Hiram Joslin. who landed in Jones county,
Aug. 27, 1837, he narrated some of the experiences of himself and other members
of the family. In those days deer, elk, wild turkeys, etc., were very plentiful
everywhere, particularly in the *Big woods/ as the Wapsie timber belt was called.
Mr. John G. Joslin, the father of Hiram, Clark, Harrison, Daniel, Thurston and
their sisters, we remember well as a great hunter, and many a deer, elk and wild
turkey fell before his unerring rifle. All the boys, and, in fact, most of the old
settlers were more or less given to exploits of this character. Mr. Hiram Joslin
claims the honor of having shot the biggest disar ever killed in the county. Mr.
Miles Russell, another old hunter remembered by a few, was with Mr. Joslin at
the time. They were one and a half miles northwest of Fairview when Hiram
finally brought down the big buck. The buck^s mate was with him and was fol-
lowed a short distance and shot, the ball cutting a big artery. Hiram then went
home, southeast of Fairview, hitched a yoke of oxen to a sled and, with his
father accompanying him, drove two or three miles, loaded up the game and
hauled it in. The buck weighed over four hundred pounds, and in all probability,
as Mr. Joslin says, was the largest ever captured in this locality. Hiram gave
the skins to his father, who had learned from the Indians the art of dressing
and tanning them for clothing, which we remember to have seen worn frequently.
Mr. Joslin said the buckskin suit was *a little sticky when wet but lasted long —
too long, sometimes, to suit him.*
"On one occasion when Hiram and his father were returning home by moon-
light from a trip up in the Buffalo timber they discovered a flock of turkeys roost-
ing in trees at some distance. Hiram mimicked a hoot owl and that started the
gobblers going. Hiram slipped through the brush until within reach, sighted
along the gHmmering gun barrel in the moonlight, fired and downed his bird.
This was about a mile northwest of the George Perkins place, near the Buffalo.
At that time many of the roads were little more than Indian trails.
"Mr. Joslin recalled a fishing trip in which he, his brothers John and Har-
rison and their father and George and Eli Brown joined. While on their way
to the Wapsie they ran on a couple of elk. The Browns had a rifle and shot the
biggest of the pair, but the other waded across the river and escaped. After dark
two torches were set aflame and borne quietly along the shore. John Joslin
speared a sturgeon weighing sixty pounds. This was their biggest prize, but
before they concluded their night's sport they also had captured six or eight
muskellunge, and when they were hung on poles suspended on their shoulders
some of their tails touched the ground. This is not an incredible story, by any
means, for we remember to have seen muskellunge weighing from twenty-two
to twenty-eight pounds, and have known of their being occasionally taken that
weighed from thirty to forty pounds, a fact that Mr. Joslin, we doubt not, can
corroborate from his personal knowledge.
"Wild geese, ducks and pigeons in their season by the millions, and prairie
chickens and quails innumerable — a mere mention is sufficient, for they were a
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drug in the market. But those days are gone, never to return, and we are com-
pelled to accept what we call advanced civilization and find the best compensa-
tions we can to take the place of the superb, unequaled, near-to-nature delights
and experiences of the huntsmen and fishermen who made this veritable paradise
their home in the days of the early pioneers."
The Thirty-third General Assembly of the State of Iowa passed a law that no
person shall hunt, pursue, kill or take any wild animals, bird or game in this
State with a gim, without first procuring a license known as a hunter's license.
This license must be procured at the office of the County Auditor and costs the
sum of one dollar, which money is transferred to the Treasurer of State and
placed to the credit of a fund known as the fish and game protection fund.
The number of citizens of Jones county who have procured a license from
the County Auditor's office up to December i, 1909, was one thousand and twenty-
four. This indicates that a good proportion of our citizens are interested to a
greater or less degree in hunting.
THE FIRST POSTOFFICE.
In 1840, a weekly horseback mail was placed on the route between Dubuque
and Iowa City, via Edinburg, the then county seat, and coming into the military
road at Dartmouth, now Anamosa. In 1841, Gideon N. Peet procured the estab-
lishment of a postoffice at his residence, a mile west of Russell's, and was ap-
pointed postmaster. This was the first postoffice and postmaster in the township,
the nearest postoffice being then at Edinburg, James Hutton, postmaster; Big
Woods, Mr. Grauel, postmaster; Rome (now Olin), Norman B. Seely, post-
master; Springville, Colonel Butler, postmaster, and Monticello, William Clark,
postmaster. Mr. Peet conducted his postoffice well, but the business was light,
for the people were few, and the rates of letter postage were burdensome. Money
was a scarce article, the country not having recovered from the effects of the
crash of 1837, and the government accepting nothing at the land offices or post-
offices except gold and silver. The money mostly current was "red-dog," "wild-
cat," and "stumptail," that is, the money of the state banks, and no man receiving
it one day could tell what it would be worth the next. In such a condition of
things, and every man hoarding to pay the government for his land, the amount
of mail sent and received was small. After some months, Mr. Peet wished to
rid himself of the care of the office. Russell desired the position, as he said, "so
that he could read all the papers," and the expression may have been one of his
many jests. In some way, and through his personal friend. Senator A. C. Dodge,
at Washington, his wish was gratified. Months passed. The mail came weekly
at about the noon hour. Almost daily, Russell might be seen stepping to his door
after dinner, and, with vexation depicted on his face, looking up the road leading
into the timber and to the Wapsipinicon bridge. Waiting for the mail kept him
from his farm work, and finally he declared the postoffice was "nothing but a
plague," and sent into Washington his resignation in favor of A. B. Dumont.
Dumont was a carpenter, one of the two sons of J. B. Dumont, then recently
arrived from the State of New York, and settled in Fairview. The other son
was Fred, an invaHd at the time, and now one of the substantial farmers near
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Fairview. The new postmaster, Mr. Dumont, had a job at Marion, Linn county,
and placed the office in charge of Edmund Booth, his next-door neighbor, for a
few weeks. The time ran into six months, and still having work at Marion,
Dumont concluded to resign. Dr. Sylvester G. Matson, then living on the military
road just south of Reed's Creek, desired it, and Mr. Dumont resigned in his
favor. Mr. Booth remarks that during the six months the postoffice was in his
care, the sum total of his compensation, that is postmaster's percentage on re-
ceipts, was just six dollars. Dr. Matson held the position one month, and, like
his predecessors, found the glory small and the pay still smaller. He, too, threw
up the affair, and another man succeeded him. The name of the office all this
time was Pamaho, suggested by Mr. Peet in his petition to the department in 1841,
Mr. Peet stating it was the name of an Indian chief in Wisconsin..
The following is a complete list of postmasters of the village of Fairview,
once called Pamaho, from September 16, 1840, when the postoffice was estab-
lished until the twenty-fourth day of October, 1904, when the postoffice was
discontinued and mail was carried by rural mail carriers from Springville, Iowa :
Pamaho (changed to Fairview). Gideon N. Peet (Estab.) Sept. 16, 1840.
Clement Russell, appointed July 8, 1843.
Sylvester G. Matson, appointed, March 2, 1844.
Amasa B. Dumont, appointed April 27, 1846.
S. G. Matson, appointed March 16, 1848.
Burton Peet, appointed July 3, 1849.
John Craighead, appointed July 29, 1850.
Amos Merrill, appointed March 20, 1854.
Joseph A. Secrest, appointed October 11, 1854.
Eli Jessup, appointed February 9, 1855.
Eli Gilbert, appointed December 12, 1855.
Giles J. Hakes, appointed July 12, 1856.
William F. Arnold, appointed May 9, 1862.
Calvin McGowen, appointed November 2, 1866.
Ames Merritt, appointed October 9, 1868.
Geo. D. McKay, appointed March 24, 1869.
Amos Merrill, appointed June 8, 1874.
Samuel B. Coleman, appointed October 8, 1877.
Amos Merrill, appointed November 12, 1877.
Calvin McGowen, appointed January 21, 1880.
Miss Elizabeth Wood, appointed January 18, 1881.
Miss Elizabeth Warner, appointed September 11, 1882.
Joseph D. Secrest, appointed March 3, 1886.
Mrs. Jane McGowan, appointed November 9, 1886.
James Northrup, appointed October 16, 1888.
Mrs. Vesta Holden, appointed December 12, 1894.
James W. Allee, appointed August 22, 1898.
William T. Cason, appointed September 6, 1900.
Harry L. Keam (or Kearn), appointed May 8, 1901.
Albertus Somers, appointed March 10, 1902.
Katharine M. Mott, appointed August 13, 1902.
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Discontinued October 24, 1904. Effective November 14, 1904. Mail to
Springville.
ANAMOSA.
On June 28, 1840, Colonel Thomas Cox, at the solicitation of J. D. Wal-
worth laid out the town which was called Dartmouth and which is now the pres-
ent location of Anamosa. The plat made by him was never recorded and
amounted to nothing. The platting of Dartmouth was done the day after the
locating of the county seat by the county commissioners, Thomas S. Denson and
Charles Hutton, June 20, 1840, in section 36, township 83, north range 3, which
was called Edinburg. R. J. Cleaveland of Olin, in the year 1846, laid the town
of Lexington, and the name Lexington was changed Anamosa, and that portion
of the city now called '*down town" by some and "Dublin" by others, corresponds
to the original town of Lexington.
To the original town there has been made the following additions and sub-
divisions :
1. Crockwell's Addition in the year 1848.
2. Crockwell's Out-Lots in the year 1847.
3. Ford's Addition in the year 1848.
4. Walworth's Addition in the year 1849.
5. Walworth's Out-Lots in the year 1849.
6. Fisher's East Anamosa in the year 1850.
7. Fisher's Addition in the year 1865.
8. Webster's Out-Lots in the year 1854.
9. Hadock's Out-Lpts 27, East Anamosa.
10. Keller's Subdivision of lot i, Fisher's Addition.
11. Warren's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
12. Shaw's Subdivision of lot i, section 11, town 84, range 4.
13. Soper & Boardman's Subdivision of lots 25, 26, 28, 29, Fisher's East
Anamosa.
14. Kimball's Subdivision of 5, 6 and part of 7, Webster's Out-Lots.
15. Peter's Subdivision of the west half of lot 4 of Fisher's Addition.
16. Gibb's Addition.
17. Skinner's Addition.
18. Boardman's Subdivision of lots 2 and 3 of Webster's Out-Lots.
19. Peter's Subdivision of lot 30, and west half of lot 31 of Walworth's
Addition.
20. Ruber's Subdivision.
21. Shaw's Subdivision of the east half of lot 4 of Fisher's Addition, and part
of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of
section 2, town 84, range 4.
22. Hick's Addition.
23. Shaw's Subdivision of lot 25 of Fisher's East Anamosa.
24. Sale's Subdivision of Out-Lot i of Walworth's Addition.
25. Boardman & Soper's Subdivision of lots 6, 7 and 10 of Anamosa.
26. Booth's Subdivision of lot 2 of Fisher's Addition.
27. Crane's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
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28. Osborne's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
29. Fisher's Subdivision of part of Walworth's Addition.
30. Subdivision A, of Skinner's Addition.
31. Shaw's Subdivision of lot 26 of Fisher's East Anamosa.
32. Shaw's Subdivision of part of lot 4, and the northeast quarter of the
northeast quarter of section 10, town 84, range 4, west of the fifth principal
meridian.
The first settlers located in Anamosa in the year 1838.
The census of 1875 shows the population of 1,598 as taken by the township
assessor, but the accuracy of this census was seriously questioned by a great
many people. The census of 1885 showed a population of 1,874; 1890, 2,078;
1895, 2,006; 1900, 2,891 ; 1905, 2,878; and it is estimated that the census of 1910
will show a population of over 3,000. Anamosa was incorporated as a village
in 1856 and as a city in 1872.
Anamosa is a beautiful city of 2,878 inhabitants, 930 feet above the sea
level, situated at the junction of the Wapsipinicon and BuflFalo Creek and at the
foot of three hills, thus being well protected from wind and storm. The
scenery in and around the city is most romantic and attractive and the bluffs
near the Wapsipinicon River and particularly at High BluflF are often compared
to the scenery along the Hudson. On account of the attractiveness of the
scenery at High Bluff and its convenience to Anamosa many picnics are
held there and during the months of June, July and August it is the scene of
many camping parties and frequently families will be there in tents most of the
summer. Another pretty place is Saum's Creek, which is commonly called
Horse Shoe Bend, being at the junction of Saum's Creek and the BuflFalo Creek
about three-quarters of a mile northwest of the State quarries. This also is a
favorable picnic ground and has been for a number of years.
THE COUNTY SEAT.
Anamosa is the county seat of Jones county and has been since the year
1847. The town of Newport being selected as the county seat in June, 1846,
was a political joke as it was a hard place to reach at that time and a long dis-
tance from the center of population.
Preparations were made for the erection of a log courthouse, and some of
the timbers were placed on the ground, but nothing was ever done toward its
completion. The commissioners rented a room from Adam Overacker for their
meeting, and made arrangements with him to supply rooms to accommodate the
court at the proper season.
When Judge Wilson reached the spot, and found there was no place prepared
for holding court, save in a room of the log shanty ; saw no other house in the
vicinity, and nought in view save trees and waving prairie-grass, he got into his
buggy and drove off to his home in Dubuque. Xo term of court was held during
the time the county seat was at Newport. The result of the election which fixed
upon Newport was generally looked upon as a joke. It satisfied no one except
Adam Overacker, and was much less suited to the needs of the county than
Edinburg. As soon as possible, the assistance of the legislature was again
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called in, and privilege was granted by that body to vote for a county seat, ac-
cording to their own inclinations. If this election should not show a majority
for any one point, a second election should be held, in which the two places
having the greatest number of votes in the first election should be the only ones
in the field.
On the first election, in the spring of 1847, ^ve points were returned, viz.:
Lexington, Newport, Rome, Monticdlo and Scotch Grove. No votes were given
to Edinburg, Newport and Lexington stood highest, and in the second contest,
about two weeks later, a victory resulted in favor of Lexington, whose name
was afterward changed by authority of Judge Wilson, of the district court, to
Anamosa.
After the election, the commissioners met June 10, 1847, ^^ Edinburg. They
adjourned till 7 o'clock, June 11, when they immediately took a recess to meet
at 8 o'clock in the afternoon at Lexington. We might, therefore, say that this
town became the county seat between 7 A. M. and 8 P. M., June 11, 1847. The
house of G. H. Ford was temporarily secured for court purposes and the trans-
action of county business.
Lexington had been surveyed by R. J. Cleaveland, June 18, 1846, with Mahan
& Crockwell as proprietors. It was replatted, with provision for a public square,
in June, 1847, by H. Mahan, John D. Crockwell and G. H. Ford, who, in accord-
ance with a previous pledge, donated to the county of Jones, fifty lots of the
new town and a public square. Of these lots, forty-eight were sold at the July
term of the Commissioners' Board, realizing to the county seven hundred and
twenty-five dollars.
The contract for building a two-story frame courthouse was let to G. H. Ford
at eight hundred dollars. This building was 30x40 feet, and could not have been
built at so low a price had it not been that most of the necessary material was
already donated to the county. This courthouse was first occupied January 3,
1848. Various attempts have been made in later years to remove the county
seat from Anamosa to a more central locality. In the vote of April 6, 1857, a
contest was waged between Anamosa and Madison, with a result of 1,024 to 717
in favor of the former. In the following year, an attempt to remove the seat of
justice to the northeast quarter of section i, Jackson township, failed of a ma-
jority by 33 votes. The ballot stood 1,278 to 1,245. ^^ October, 1874, the
people were called upon to decide between Anamosa and Center Junction. The
contest was a bitter one, and not without some fear on the part of the friends
of Anamosa. The latter, however, were successful by a vote of 1,993 to 1,592.
The courthouse above mentioned, as built by G. H. Ford in 1847, was used
by the county until 1864. Some brick offices had also been erected, which stood,
with the courthouse, down in the part known as the "old town" of Anamosa.
Though the old building did good service for the county for some eighteen
years, yet it was not free from the gnawings of the "tooth of time," and we
find, in the midwinter meeting of the board of supervisors, the following reso-
lutions offered:
Whereas, H. C. Metcalf has generously offered to Jones county suitable
rooms for county offices and a commodious hall in which to hold the district
court, for the term of two years free of rent, with the privilege of using the
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same three years longer for such rent as the board of supervisors may see fit to
allow, and
Whereas. The ruinous and dilapidated condition of the building known as
the Jones county courthouse, now only renders it a fit habitation for bats and
owls, and as we, the representatives of Jones county, do not desire longer to
dispute possession with a class of tenants whose claims are vastly superior to
ours, therefore
Resolved, That this board accept said proposition and order a removal of the
public records as soon as said Metcalf shall make to the county a lease of the
aforesaid rooms, in accordance with the conditions above stated.
This resolution was finally adopted on the sixth day of the term, January,
1864. The old courthouse was sold at auction November 15, 1864, to E. B.
Alderman for two hundred and fifty dollars, and was moved up town.
The rooms rented of Mr. Metcalf were occupied free of rent for two years,
when they were leased at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per year.
The county offices remained here until the fall of 1871 when they were removed
to their present location in Shaw's block. The courtroom was removed to Lehm-
kuhFs block in January, 187 1, the hall in Metcalf 's building being inadequate to
the needs of the county. For three years, the county rented the rooms occupied
by the county officers. During the time of the contest for the county seat between
Center Junction and Anamosa, the latter city in its corporate capacity appro-
priated three thousand dollars and private citizens subscribed two thousand dol-
lars more, with which amount and one thousand dollars additional pledged, the
entire second floor of Shaw's block and the auditor's office on the first floor were
purchased and conveyed to the county of Jones, to belong to said county so
long as they were occupied for county and court purposes. In the event that
the county seat is removed from Anamosa, these rooms are to revert to their for-
mer owners, the city and citizens of Anamosa.
Four terms of court are held in Jones county each year, viz.: March, May,
September and December. The longest terms usually being March and Septem-
ber. Three judges preside over the court in Anamosa: Hon. F. O. Ellison, Hon.
Milo P. Smith, Hon. W. N. Treichler. Judge F. O. Ellison living in Anamosa
holds two terms of court and each of the other judges one. The county officers
all reside in Anamosa and frequently remain after their term of office expires
and become permanent residents of the city.
BUSINESS INTERESTS.
As a business center Anamosa leads the county as is indexed by the vast
amount of freight shipped in and out by its three railroads, viz.; Chicago, Mil-
waukee & St. Paul Railway Company, Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com-
pany and Chicago, Anamosa & Northern Railway Company. It has three pros-
perous and substantial banks: Niles & Watters Savings Bank with a deposit of
six hundred and five thousand, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and ninety-
two cents on the loth day of August, 1909, the Anamosa National Bank with a
deposit of four hundred and ninety-six thousand, one hundred and seventy-one
dollars and twenty-six cents on the i6th day of November, 1909, and the Citi-
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zcns Savings Bank with a deposit of one hundred and two thousand, and eighty-
seven dollars and seventy-seven cents on the lOth day of August, 1909.
Anamosa has ten blocks of brick paving, ten miles of permanent walks, good
water works system, good electric light company, good gas company, good fire
department, good public schools, good postal service and a good free public
library. Its fire department is one of the best volunteer fire departments in the
state of Iowa, which in former times took a prominent part in the state tourna-
ments and has always responded promptly and cheerfully to all fires. It has
been the means of saving thousands of dollars to the citizens of Anamosa and is
one of the most beneficial organizations in the city.
ANAMOSA WATER WORKS.
It also has a good water works system which is now owned by the city. The
Anamosa water works was incorporated February 20, 1875, by J. C. Dietz, C. H.
Lull, N. S. Noble, B. F. Shaw, M. Heisy, T. W. Shapley, J. G. McGuire, T. R.
Ercanbrack, E. B. Alderman, H. C. Metcalf , J. H. Williams, George Watters, John
Watters and E. Blakeslee. The corporation stock of the company was fixed at
ten thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing to twenty thousand dollars.
On April 20, 1875, the city of Anamosa gave the water works company a twenty-
five year franchise. The pump station of the water works company is situated
near the bridge on the Wapsipinicon River. The reservoir is on the hill between
South Ford and Booth street and has a capacity of one hundred thousand gallons.
The majority stock of the company was purchased by John G. Griffith who had
control of the company for many years. In 1909 the water works company was
purchased by the city of Anamosa for the sum of twenty thousand dollars. The
city has already made arrangements to put in new machinery at the pump house,
which shall be operated by electricity obtained from the electric light company,
and is already extending the water mains so as to accommodate all citizens.
MERCANTILE AND PROFESSIONAL.
Anamosa has many prominent professional and business men and many first
class stores. It has ten lawyers, six doctors and five dentists. It has six
grocery stores, five shoe stores, four dry-goods stores, two meat markets, four
drug stores, three jewelry stores, one furniture store, three millinery stores, two
newspapers, two livery stables, one large school book and supply company, the
W. M. Welch Company; one tile spade company, owned and operated by J. A.
Belknap ; one cooperage company known as the American Cooperage Company,
with a large plant at Wilson, Arkansas, and a butter tub factory operated in the
state reformatory, one steam laundry, two blacksmith shops, two lumber yards,
six churches and a very pretty well kept city park.
STRAWBERRY HILL.
Strawberry Hill up until the year 1901 was an independent village adjacent
to the city of Anamosa but was no part of the city of Anamosa. It maintained
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its own municipal government. The division line betweenAnamosa and Straw-
berry Hill was Division street and all east of Division street constituted Straw-
berry Hill. By a vote of the people on August 20, 1901, Strawberry Hill was
annexed and became a part of the city of Anamosa and has been ever since
When it was annexed two councilmen were elected from Strawberry Hill so that
she might have representation in the city affairs. In February, 1904, the city
of Anamosa reduced the number of councilmen from six to four and also reduced
the number of wards from six to four, and that part of Strawberry Hill north
of Main street and east of Division street was added to the first ward of Ana-
mosa, and that part south of Main street and east of Division street became
part of the fourth ward of Anamosa. At the present time Anamosa has a mayor
and six councilmen, two elected at large and one from each ward.
ANAMOSA INCORPORATED.
In the early part of 1854, a petition was presented to the county judge of
Jones county, requesting the appointment of an election to decide whether or not
Anamosa should become an incorporated town. The judge granted the petition
and named May i, 1854, as the day on which said election should be held, and
at which election persons residing in the platted village of Anamosa should be
electors. The result was in favor of an incorporation.
A second election was ordered to be held in the courthouse of Anamosa on the
27th of May following, to choose five persons who should prepare a charter
for the proposed town. This election resulted in the choice of C. L. D. Crockwell,
D. Kinert, P. R. Skinner, S. T. Pierce and Joseph Dimmitt.
The charter was not submitted for adoption for almost two years, being
adopted March 19, 1856, and submitted for the consideration of the county
judge. By him the first election was immediately ordered, resulting in the
choice of William T. Shaw, mayor ; C. C. Peet, recorder and G. W. Keller, Joseph
Mann, S. T. Buxton and H. C. Metcalf, councilmen.
Anamosa was divided into wards and declared organized as a city February
6, 1872, by the town council. This organization was completed by the first city
election held March 4, 1872, when two councilmen were elected from each ward.
A FEW DATES OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
August 20, 1901, Strawberry Hill annexed to Anamosa.
October 14, 190T, ordinance granted to Jones County Telephone Company.
March 4, 1902, resolution passed to build a city hall and hose house.
May 5, 1903, contractor Chadwick's bid for the construction of a city hall
accepted.
February 5, 1904, voted a five per cent tax to Chicago, Anamosa & Northern
Railway Company, for a proposed railway from Anamosa to Prairieburg.
February i, 1904, city reduced from six to four wards.
May 10, 1906, contract for paving awarded to William Horrabin of Iowa
City, the lowest bidder, his bid being one dollar and sixty-one cents per yard,
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stone curbing forty-three cents per foot. This paving cost a total of fifteen
thousand, nine hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifteen cents.
September lo, 1907, petition of the voters of Anamosa for the purchase of
the water works company was filed by the city council.
October 28, 1907, election for the purchase of the water works system. The
vote being one hundred and eighty-three for and seventy-nine against.
ORIGIN OF THE NAME ANAMOSA.
The name of this city has a somewhat romantic origin, and is derived from a
simple incident in its early history. This incident occurred in the house of G. H.
Ford about 1842, and is thus related by Edmund Booth, who happened to be
present: "One day three Indians came in. At a glance, it was seen that they
were not of the common, skin-dressed, half wild and dirty class. They were a
man, woman and daughter, and all wore a look of intelligence quite diflFerent
from the generally dull aspect of their race. The man and woman were dressed
mostly in the costume of white people, with some Indian mixed; but the girl,
bright and pleasant faced, and apparently about eight or ten years old, was wholly
in Indian dress. One can form some tolerable idea of her appearance from the
carved full length figures sometimes found in front of tobacco and cigar shops
in the cities. These are not always fancy figures, but taken from real life, though
such are rarely, if ever, seen among Indians, as they travel from one part of
the country to another. The girl was dressed as becomes the daughter of a
chief. She was really a handsome girl. Her dress was entirely Indian, bright
as was the expression of her face, tasteful, and yet not gaudy. She wore orna-
mented leggings and moccasins, and her whole appearance was that of a well-
dressed Indian belle.
"It was evident that these Indians were, as we said, not of the common order,
and this fact excited more interest in us and Mr. and Mrs. Ford, no other per-
sons being present, than was usually the case at that day, when the sight of
native sons and daughters of the wild frontier was a common occurrence. The
three were entirely free from the dull, wary watchfulness of their kind, and,
though somewhat reserved at first, were possessed of an easy dignity. They
readily became cheerful, and but for their light red color, would be taken for
well-bred white people. They were from Wisconsin and on their way west.
"We inquired their names. The father's was Nasinus. The name of the
mother was a longer one and has escaped our memory. The name of the daugh-
ter was Anamosa — pronounced by the mother, An-a-mo-sah, as is the usual way,
and corresponds to the Indian pronunciation of Sar-a-to-gah, the Saratoga of
New York. When we asked the mother the name of her daughter, the latter
laughed the pleasant, half bashful laugh of a young girl, showing she understood
the question but did not speak. This interview was decidedly agreeable all
around. After more than an hour spent in conversation, having taken dinner,
they departed on the military road westward, leaving a pleasant impression be-
hind them.
"It occurred to us that the names of the father and daughter were suitable
for new towns — in fact, infinitely preferable to repeating Washington and various
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others for the hundredth time. Unfortunately, we neglected to ascertain of them
the meaning of their names, but, some years later, Pratt R. Skinner removed
here from Dubuque and established a land agency, subsequently a dry-goods
store, under the firm of Skinner & Clark. Mr. Skinner had been engaged in
government surveys in this part of Iowa, and was no stranger to the Indians
and their language. He said the word Anamosa signified white fawn, and the
probability of such being the case is natural enough, when we consider the Indian
custom of naming persons from individual objects.
"After Lexington had been platted on this spot and had become the county
seat, we brought forward the subject of changing the name of the town, and
thus avoiding the numerous delays and losses in mail matter, resulting from sim-
ilarity of postoffice names, almost every northern state having its Lexington,
Skinner and C. C. Rockwell joined in the move, but, on consultation, the board of
commissioners concluded they had no power in the premises, and that it was the
province of the district court. At the first session of that court held in Lexington,
a petition, gotten up mainly by Skinner and Rockwell, was presented. Judge
Wilson assented, and since then the town has borne the name of Anamosa."
THE ANAMOSA POSTOFFICE.
The Anamosa postoffice was organized on the 4th day of November, 1847,
and Columbus C. Rockwell was appointed postmaster and from that time until
the present time there have only been eighteen different postmasters. The fol-
lowing is an accurate list of postmasters showing their date and time of service
obtained by the editor from the postal department at Washington, D. C. :
Anamosa. — Columbus C. Rockwell, appointed November 4, 1847. Chas. L.
D. Rockwell, appointed May 9, 1849. Joseph A. Hunt, appointed April 28, 1853.
Linus Osborn, appointed December 10, 1853. Samuel A. Cunningham, appointed
April 7, 1854. Richard G. Hunt, appointed August 8, 1856. Henry A. Shaffer,
appointed September 24, 1856. Jonathan H. Show, appointed March 5, 1858
Amos H. Peaslee, appointed December 9, 1858. Nathan G. Sales, appointed Oc-
tober 6, i860. Horace C. Metcalf, appointed March 29, 1861. Richard Mc-
Daniel. appointed March 20, 1866. Harlen Hallenbeck, appointed July 26, 1866.
Geo. W. Coe (P. & S.),* appointed April 5, 1869. Chas. W. Coe (P. & S.). ap-
pointed April 20, 1869. Reappointed (P. & S.), December 10, 1872. Reap-
pointed (P. & S.), January 9, 1877. Wm. B. Fish (P. & S.), appointed January
24, t88i. Reappointed (P. & S.), January 2,-], 1885. Newton S. Noble (P. & S.),
April 5, 1887. Reappointed (P.),* February 9, 1888. Elihu J. Wood (P. & S.),
April 30. 1890. Edward C. Holt (P. & S.), April 17, 1894. Chas. H. Anderson
(P. & S.), March 22, 1898. Reappointed (P. & S.), April 10, 1902. Reappointed
(P. & S.), March 21, 1906.
The present postmaster is Charles H. Anderson, appointed March 22, 1898,
and has been twice reappointed. Mr. Anderson has been a very competent and
obliging postmaster and has aided materially in the present accommodation of the
office and in the increase of business. He has increased the business from five
thousand, three hundred and nine dollars and sixty-two cents in the year ending
•(p. & S.)=prcsiclent and senate. (P.,)=presicient.
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March i, 1898, when he was appointed, to ten thousand, four hundred and fifty-
two dollars and thirty-eight cents for the year 1908. It was through his efforts
that the office was placed in the rank of second-class office July i, 1904, giving
the city free delivery. February i, 1906, two mail carriers were established and
on April i, 1907, a third was granted. The present carriers are A. A. Bagley,
E. B. Harrison and Richard Owen. There are five rural mail routes from the
Anamosa postoffice established as follows: No. i. May i, 1902; No. 2, January
I, 1902; No. 3, January i, 1902; No. 4, December i, 1902; No. 5, November 15,
1902. The Anamosa postoffice has the finest home of any postoffice in Jones
county.
The present postoffice officers are: postmaster, C. H. Anderson; assistant
postmaster, C. L. Anderson; clerksr: Hugh Reid, B. I. McLaughlin and F. C.
.\lton.
ANAMOSA HOME COMING.
The Anamosa fair association thinking that a homecoming week on the same
date$ as the Anamosa fair would be a splendid thing for the community, appointed
Qifford L. Niles, James E. Remley and E. R. Moore a committee to properly
advertise the homecoming and make the necessary arrangements. This com-
mittee did active work and made the necessary arrangements and preparation for
the Anamosa homecoming. The fair association appointed the following com-
mittee of the Anamosa citizens to take charge of the homecoming and arrange
the program, viz. : E. J. Wood, T. E. Booth, H. M. Remley, M. Belknap, C. J.
Cash, B. H. Miller, Mrs. David Hakes, Mrs. Edward Foley, Mrs. E. M. Harvey
and Mrs. Geo. W. Byerly.
The following program was adopted by the committee :
Tuesday, October 24, 1909. Reception and registration at city hall.
Wednesday, 9 .00 o'clock. Reunion at City Park, Mayor Robert Johnson pre-
siding. Address of Welcome, Judge F. O. Ellison. Responses, Chancy Wood,
Rapid City, S. D. ; J. M. Parsons, Des Moines, Iowa ; Captain E. B. Soper, Esther-
ville, Iowa.
1 1 :30 a. m. Picnic dinner at City Park.
Thursday, 9 o'clock. Visit to city reformatory.
10 o'clock. Automobile ride.
Thursday, 2 p. m. City Park, a general reunion and program of music and
impromptu addresses.
On account of the unfavorable weather conditions the program was carried
out at the courthouse, Mayor Johnson presiding. Jansa's band of Cedar Rapids
furnished good music, as also did Miss Blanche Port's girl choir. Judge F. O.
Ellison was then introduced and gave a very hearty, enthusiastic welcome to all
homecomers. Rev. D. C. Dutton of Webster City, Missouri, responded to Judge
Ellison's eloquent welcome in a most happy and pleasing manner. Judge B. H.
Miller was then introduced and gave some very timely remarks regarding early
Anamosa and Jones county history.
The picnic which was planned to be held at the City Park was held in the
parlors 0/ the Methodist church and a most enjoyable time was had. The women
had charge of the picnic dinner under the leadership of Mrs. Geo. W. Byerly and
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Mrs. Ed Foley and their work was faithfully performed and the picnic dinner
was one of the most successful features of the homecoming. Some of the other
parts of the program were not completed on account of the excessively rainy
weather.
The following is a list of those who registered, consisting of two hundred and
forty-three names, which does not include all of those who returned to Anamosa.
Chas. Allen, Lillian Wheeler Allen, 1884; H. L. and Ruth Allen, Lohrville;
Mrs. Myrtle Clark Albee, Colorado Springs, Colorado,! 901.
Florence L. Beam, Minneapolis, 1903; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Beam, Murdo,
South Dakota, 1906; A. R. Byerly, Mrs. E. A. Byerly, Fredonia, Kansas, 1875;
Mabel Booth Brewer, 1897; Gertrude and Helen Brewer, Bozeman, Montana;
Wm. Bodenhofer, Hackensack, Minnesota, 1906; Geo. and Mrs. Brimacombe,
Sabetha, Kansas, 1908; Morgan Bumgardner, Cedar Falls, 1869; J. H. Boots,
Huron, South Dakota, Mrs. Janet Boots, 1904; Jarold H. Boots; F. M. Byerly,
Delhi, 1899; C. H. Byerly, Cedar Rapids, 1901 ; J. W. Byers, Cedar Rapids, 1903 ;
Faye Brock, Alden; A. Bricker, Maquoketa.
W. P. Connery, Murdo, South Dakota, 1909; Edith Caulkins, Knoxville, Ten-
nessee; M. Chaplin, Lawrence, Kansas, 1908; J. F. Cohoon, Cedar Falls, 1907;
Mrs. W. M. Carter, 1897; Hildreth A., Carol A. and Willis G. Carter, San An-
tonio, Texas; Mrs. Julia Cowen, Chicago; Mrs. Bessie and Francis Coleman, Des
Moines; Mrs. Coon, Oxford Junction, 1859; Elias Curttright, Marshalltown ; W.
M. Carter, San Antonio, Texas.
Robert T. Dott, Salem, South Dakota, 1S83; Mrs. M. E. Dott. Sioux City;
Robert O. Dott,, Salem; J. D. E. Doolittle, Coggon, 1887; Rev. and Mrs. D. C.
Dutton, Helen A. and Adena C. Dutton, Webb City, Missouri, 1907.
Alice Doyle, F. J. Dawson, Dubuque; Mrs. Ed. Doyle, Viola, 1889; Ed. Dor-
sey, Clinton ; W. A. Dunn, Agent C. R. L & P. 1867.
Bessie Ewing, Cedar Rapids, 1906; Frank O. Erwin, Cedar Rapids, 1902.
W. H. and Grace V. Farragher, Livermore, California, 1903; T. W. Foley,
Denver; Mrs. Eliza McDaniels, Fenton, Cedar Rapids; H. O. Frink, Chicago,
1901 ; Joy L. Frink, Chicago, 1881.
Mrs. J. W. Gerber, 1887; Helen C. Gerber, Washington, D. C. ; Bertha A.
Graham, Chattanooga, Oklahoma, 1901 ; Olivine Graham; Dell Gleason, Ames,
1907; A. N. and Mrs. Griswold, Cedar Rapids, 1881 ; Ben H. Griffith, Nara Visa,
New Mexico, 1909; Earl and Mrs. Gough, Mt. Vernon; W. F. Glick, Perry; Mrs.
R. R. Griffith, Moline, Illinois; Hannah R. Gilbert, Rhodes.
Mrs. Lorinda Huber Smith, Mechanicsville, 1864; C. H. Harvey, 1885, Edith
C. and Helen W. Harvey, Knoxville, Tennessee ; Mrs. T. E. Hartman, Waterloo,
1905; B. M. Hester, Ida Grove, 1876; G. W. and E. A. Harvey, Kimball,
Neb., 1870; Ronald Hartman, Waterloo, 1905; Jane M. Harvey, Des Moines.
1898; J. P. Hire, J. B. Hepler, Cedar Rapids; Mrs. C. W. Hosford, Mrs. H.
Paulson, Mrs. V. L. Hanssen, Monticello ; E. S. Holt, Cedar Rapids ; Mrs. Gladys
Sigworth Hull, Boone.
J. and Laura J. Ireland, Clinton, 1881 ; L. L. Ireland, Wyoming, 1885.
H. J. and L. Joslin, Holstein, 1882; R. T. Jeffrey, Ames, 1884; Mrs. Jennie
Niles Jeffrey. Ames, 1902 ; Waller and Mrs. James, Wyoming.
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Mrs. Ella Kershner, Bessie and Lottie Kershner, La Belle, Missouri, 1904;
Julia, John and lola Kearns, Wellington, Kansas, 1907; Esther L. Kimball, Wy-
oming; L. H. and Mrs. Kaufmann, Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. A. V. Larrance, Aledo, Illinois; C. O. and Mrs. Lawson, 1897; R. O.
and M. R. Lawson, Waterloo; Will and Mrs. Lawrence, Cedar Rapids; Dick
and Mrs. Lynn, Dubuque, 1903; Loretta Lynn, Dubuque, 1904.
Wm. McGuire, Chicago, 1894; Mrs. H. M. McGuire, 1894; E. C. Morey,
Chicago, 1872; Mrs. Lillian Belknap Miller, Rockford, 1904; Fred J. Miller, Rock-
ford; H. H. Mead, Kingsley, 1880; G. W. and Mrs. Miller, Cedar Rapids, 1900;
Cyrus and Mrs. Matthews, Sioux City, 1897; Ada C. and Wilma M. Mclntyre,
Moline, Illinois, 1905 ; Florence and Ruth Matthews, Sioux City ; P. D. Murphy,
1882; Margaret Murphy, Chicago, 1894; T. R. Susie, I. and K. McLaughlin, Du-
buque, 1902; Dr. E. A. McLeod, Central City; John McMurrin, Wyoming, 1907;
F. C. McKean, Salina, Kansas, 1872; Harry W. Miller, Cedar Rapids; L. B. and
Mrs. Miller and Mary E. Dixon, Illinois.
John W. Niles, Sterling, Illinois, 1861 ; Leila Niles, Winfield, Kansas, 1902;
S. D. Newman, Syracuse, Nebraska, 1883; Mrs. O. M. Newman, Marion, 1908;
Harry Newlin, Viola; W. S. Niles, Cedar Rapids; Mrs. J. E. Nyquist, 1892, Helen,
Mae and Buford R. Xyquist, Clinton; H. D. Neall, Chicago; Mrs. A. L. Neal,
Clarksville; R. M. Nandell, Cedar Rapids; Mrs. W. J. Newell and son, Eau
Claire, Wisconsin.
M. F. and Mrs. OToole, Kansas City, Missouri, 1909.
Mrs. A. D. Patton, DeKalb, Illinois, 1884; Emily G. Platts, Trent, South Da-
kota, 1869; Edith Pearson, Davenport, 1905; J. D. Pope, Cedar Rapids, 1901 ;
Annette M. Page, Princeton, Illinois, 1904; O. L. Postlewait, Prairieburg, 1884;
W. E. Potter, Baldwin, 1889; F. W. Port, Olin, 1886; Mrs. H. L. Peters, Edge-
wood ; Mrs. Fannie Peterson, Central City ; Mrs. G. S. and H. K. Peters, Edge-
wood; E. W. Penley, Waubeek, 1889; John H. Peck, Iowa City, 1905; J. W.
Port, Scribner, Nebraska.
Milton Remley, Iowa City, 1874; Josephine D. Remley, Iowa City, 1874; F. C.
and Mrs. Reymore, Estherville. 1893; Harry Reymore, Estherville; Mrs. Reese,
Des Moines; Mrs. C. L. Rumsey, Tilden, Nebraska, 1903; Mrs. E. R. Ristine,
1897; Feme and Fay Ristine, Buckingham; Bert Raymond, Cedar Falls, 1883;
Mrs. Alice and Mrs. Fred Raymond, Harry Raymond, Cedar Rapids; Nellie
Rhodes, Davenport.
Carrie H. Sheean, Chicago; Claude Stickley, Cedar Rapids, 1904; M. and
Mrs. Slif e, 1891 ; Earl Slif e, Dedham ; W. D. Sheean, Wilson, Arkansas, Kate
Sunday, Broughton, Illinois, 1906; Mrs. J. A. Spade, Renner, South Dakota.
1888; N. P. Stewart, 1890, Catherine Wildey Stewart, 1900, Martha Anne Stew-
art, Minneapolis ; C. W and Mrs. Stites, Independence, 1875 > C. P. Scroggs, Dal-
las, South Dakota, 1908; E. G. Stanley, Cedar Rapids; Nate Sherman, Central
City, 1879; Mrs. Switzer, Viola, 1889; E. B. Soper, Emmetsburg, 1865; Harry
W. and Mrs. Sigworth, Waterloo, 1906; W. E. Slosson, Chicago, 1867.
Lucile E. Tucker, KeithsviUe. Louisiana, 1905; G. B. Taylor, Marion, 1897;
Thomas and Mrs. T. W. Troy. Wilmette, Thomas and Margaret Troy, Keystone,
1907.
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W. O. and Lizzie W. VanNess, Clinton, 1888; Mrs. C. E. VanSant, 1903;
Dwight and Harriet VanSant, Clinton.
J. J. and Sarah E. Wolf, Mason City, 1899; Geo. A. and Mrs. Winslow,
Whiting, Indiana, 1894; Jeannie Lawrence Wicken, Dubuque; L. S. and Mrs.
Wagner, Cedar Rapids, 1901 ; H. Walderbach, Chicago; L. F. Wagner, Council
Bluffs, 1902; James Watts, Reno, Nevada, 1897; Henry and Abbietta Porter
Wilkinson, Morrison, Illinois; Mrs. John Williams, Lawrence Williams, Clinton;
C. M. Willard, T. E. Hartman, Waterloo ; Henry Watson, Freeport, Illinois, 1907.
Mrs. E. and Miss N. Yount, Dubuque.
CITY OFFICERS.
Anamosa held its first election as an organized town on the first Monday of
April, 1856. Mayor, William T. Shaw ; recorder, C. C. Peet ; council : G. W. Kel-
ler, Joseph Mann, S. T. Buxton, H. C. Metcalf.
1857 — Mayor, Robert Dott; recorder, Charles D. Perfect; councilmen: H. C.
Metcalf, S. S. McDaniels, E. Cutler, Burton Peet.
1858 — Mayor, A. H. Peaslee; recorder, E. Cutler; council: E. T. Mellett, W.
R. Locke, J. J. Welsh, A. P. Carter.
1859 — Mayor, George W. Field; recorder, C. L. Hayes; council: J. J. Welsh,
W. R. Locke, A. P. Carter, J. L. Brown.
i860 — Mayor, N. G. Sales; recorder, O. Burke; council, P. Flannery, J. J.
Dickinson, David Graham, J. L. Brown.
1861 — Mayor, N. G. Sales; recorder, O. Burke; council, William Skehan,
Cornelius Peaslee, Benjamin Chaplin, J. J. Dickinson.
1862 — Mayor, N. G. Sales ; recorder, J. J. Dickinson ; council : E. B. Alderman,
Benjamin Chaplin, F. L. McKean, J. D. Walworth.
1863 — Mayor, J. H. Benjamin, recorder, Robert Dott ; council : E. M. Harvey,
B. L. Watson, C. J. Higby, E. M. Littlefield.
1864 — Mayor, Israel Fisher; recorder, E. M. Littlefield; council: A. P. Carter,
W. M. Skinner, J. S. Belknap, J. S. Perfect.
1865 — Mayor, Israel Fisher; recorder, E. M. Littlefield; council: A. P. Carter,
J. S. Belknap, W. M. Skinner, John S. Stacy.
1866 — Mayor, John S. Stacy; recorder, C. T. Lamson; council: H. C. Met-
calf, J. C. Dietz, H. Lehmkuhl, P. Haines.
1867 — Mayor, J. C. Dietz; recorder, A. P. Carter; council: S. G. Matson, C.
W. HoUenbeck, M. H. Franch, Robert Dott, E. B. Alderman.
1868 — Mayor, D. McCarn; recorder, A. P. Carter; council, L. Niles, A. Heit-
chen, B. F. Shaw, H. C. Metcalf, C. W. HoUenbeck.
1869— Mayor, J. C Dietz ; recorder, E. M. Littlefield ; council : H. C. Metcalf,
Thomas Perfect, J. H. Fisher, L. F. Clark, Lyman Niles.
1870— Mayor, E. Blakeslee; recorder, B. F. Shaw; council: H. C. Metcalf,
J. H. Fisher, B. P. Simmons, A. B. Cox, Lyman Niles.
1871 — Mayor, Charles Cline; recorder, C. M. Failing; council: B. F. Shaw,
W. W. HoUenbeck, D. C. Tice, O. M. Ellis, W. S. Benton.
March 5, 1872, Anamosa was organized as a city, with the following officers:
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Mayor, Robert Dott; city clerk, C. M. Failing; council: A. Heitchen, A. B. Cox,
S. G. Matson, J. L. Brown, O. Dunning, S. Neeham, Frank Fisher, C. H. Lull.
1873 — Mayor, Robert Dott ; clerk, E. M. Littlefield ; council : A. Heitchen, S. G.
Matson, O. Dunning, Frank Fisher, Milton Remley, L. Schoonover, J. G. Parsons,
A. V. Eaton.
i874^Mayor, Robert Dott; clerk, L. B. Peck; council, Milton Remley, L.
Schoonover, B. P. Simmons, A. V. Eaton, J. T. Rigby, J. S. Belknap, J. B. Mc-
Queen, Harmon Dorgeloh.
1875— Mayor, Robert Dott; clerk, L. B. Peck; council: J. T. Rigby, J. S.
Belknap, C. M. Failing, J. B. McQueen, E. B. Alderman, L. Schoonover, George
Watters, A. V. Eaton.
1876 — Mayor, E. Steever (resigned in June and Robert Dott elected to fill
vacancy); clerk, L. B. Peck; council: E. B. Alderman, L. Schoonover, George
Watters, A. V. Eaton, T. Clancy, J. T. Rigby, D. M. Hakes, J. S. Belknap.
1877 — Mayor, N. S. Noble; clerk, L. B. Peck; council: T. Clancy, J. T. Rigby,
D. M. Hakes, J. S. Belknap, C. L. Niles, D. Chadwick, L. Schoonover, L. J.
Adair.
1878 — Mayor, A. V. Eaton; clerk, L. B. Peck; council: C. L. Niles, D. Chad-
wick, L. Schoonover, L. J. Adair, E. J. Wood, H. W. Sigworth, W. A. Cunning-
ham, T. R. Ercanbrack.
1879 — Mayor, A. V. Eaton; clerk, C. M. Brown; council: H. W. Sigworth,
E. J. Wood, W. A. Cunningham, T. R. Ercanbrack, I. Fisher, M. Heisey, R. L.
Duer, J. P. Scroggs.
The historian was unable to obtain the list of city officers from 1879 ^^ 1897,
as the record could not be found.
1897 — Mayor, W. D. Sheean; clerk, J. B. Connery; treasurer, T. E. Watters;
solicitor, C. M. Brown; council, A. M. Simmons, M. P. Sigworth, J. M. D. Joslin,
John Z. Lull, H. E. M. Niles, F. J. Fuller, E. R. Moore, F. J. Cunningham.
1898 — Mayor, W. D. Sheean ; clerk, L. J. Fisher ; treasurer, T. E. Watters ;
solicitor, C. M. Brown; council: H. E. M. Niles, E. L. Atkinson, M. P. Sig-
worth, A. M. Simmons, J. M. D. Joslin, F. J. Cunningham, J. Z. Lull, E. R. Moore.
1899 — Mayor, W. D. Sheean; clerk, L. J. Fisher; treasurer, T. E. Watters;
solicitor, C. M. Brown; council: W. O. Jackells, E. L. Atkinson, Jno. Z. Lull,
A. M. Simmons, E. R. Moore, W. B. Foley, M. P. Sigworth, J. M. D. Joslin.
1900 — Mayor, W. D. Sheean; clerk, C. M. Carter; treasurer, T. E. Watters;
solicitor, C. M. Brown ; council : Miles Cook, E. L. Atkinson, J. Z. Lull, Geo. Wat-
ters, A. M. Simmons, W. B. Foley, W. A. Cunningham, W. O. Jackells.
1901 — Mayor, W. O. Jackells; clerk, C. M. Carter, L. J. Fisher; treasurer,
T. E. Watters ; solicitor. Park Chamberlain ; assessor, D. M. Hakes ; council : E. L.
Atkinson, J. K. Hale, Geo. Watters, H. V. Powers, D. B. Sigworth, J. P. Scroggs,
A. C. Peet, M. L. Hollister, A. J. Byerly.
1902 — Mayor, B. H. Miller ; clerk, L. J. Fisher ; treasurer, T. E. Watters, soli-
citor. Park Chamberlain; assessor, D. M. Hakes; council, Lou Kaufmann, Jas.
E. Remley, L. W. Ellis, J. P. Scroggs, B. E. Rhinehart, H. H. Soper, H." V.
Powers, A. C. Peet, A. J. Byerly, D. B. Sigworth.
1903 — Mayor, M. P. Sigworth ; clerk, L. J. Fisher ; treasurer, T. E. Watters :
solicitor. Park Chamberlain; assessor, D. M. Hakes; council: C.W. B. Derr, J. A.
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Moe, J. M. D. Joslin, Harry Qarke, A. J. Byerly, L. W. Ellis, Jas. Remley, B. E.
Rhinehart, J. P. Scroggs, H. H. Soper.
1904 — Mayor, M. P. Sigworth; clerk, B. E. Rhinehart; treasurer, T. E. Wat-
ters; solicitor, Park Chamberlain; assessor, D. M. Hakes; council: D. Chadwick,
Wm. Foley, J. A. Moe, G. W. Byerly, J. P. Scroggs, J. M. D. Joslin, M. L. Hol-
lister, A. J. Byerly.
1905 — Mayor, L. W. Ellis, clerk, L. J. Fisher; treasurer, T. E. Watters; soli-
citor, B. E. Rhinehart; assessor, D. M. Hakes ; council : J. G. Fegan, Geo. Beamen,
F. E. Johnson, A. J. Byerly, D. Chadwick, G. W. Byerly, J. P. Scroggs, M. L.
HoUister.
1906 — Mayor, L. W. Ellis ; clerk, L. J. Fisher ; treasurer, T. E. Watters ; so-
licitor, B. E. Rhinehart; assessor, D. M Hakes; council: F. M. Belknap, C. J
Cash, J. P. Scroggs, M. L. HoUister, Geo. Beamen, J. C. Fegan, F. E. Johnson,
A. J. Byerly.
1907 — Mayor, J. P. Scroggs; clerk, L. J. Fisher; treasurer, T. E. Watters;
solicitor, B. E. Rhinehart; assessor, D. M. Hakes; council: J. G. Fegan, G. W.
Beaman, F. M. Belknap, C. J. Cash, C. E. Joslin, T. Burke, A. J. Byerly.
1908 — Mayor, J. P. Scroggs; clerk, L. J. Fisher; treasurer, T. E. Watters;
Folicitor, B. E. Rhinehart; assessor, D. M. Hakes, council; F. M. Belknap, W. S.
Barker, G. Beaman, J. A. Moe, C. E. JosHn, J. W. Conmey, R. D. Mclntyre,
A. J. Byerly.
1909 — Mayor, Robert Johnson; clerk, L. J. Fisher; treasurer, T. E. Watters;
solicitor, B. E. Rhinehart; assessor, D. M. Hakes; council: Ed Foley, F. J. Ful-
ler, J. L. Kaufmann, Geo. Beamen, R. E. Giltrap, A. J. Byerly.
BAPTIST CHURCHES OF FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP.
FAIRVIEW.
The first Baptist church organized in Fairview township was situated in the
village of Fairview. On the 29th day of July, 1848, the following persons met
in the village, viz. : Louis W. Homan, Nathan B. Homan, Abram Raver, John
G. Joslin, John Morehouse, Cordelia Peet, Margaret Morehouse, Temperance M.
Homan, Candace Joslin and Barbara Raver and proceeded to organize a Baptist
church. They fixed the date, August 17, 1848, as the time when the church should
be publicly recognized by its sister churches, and appointed Elders Morey and
Blanchard a committee to notify the nearest churches, which were at the following
towns : Iowa City, Marion, Davenport, Delaware, Cascade, Dubuque and Maquo-
keta. On the date fixed the council consisting of the following delegates : Iowa
City church, Rev. D. P. Smith, pastor. Rev. W. B. Morey; Delaware church,
Rev. Ira H. Blanchard, pastor, John Mallory and Ezra Blanchard; Dubuque
church. Rev. T. H. Archibald, pastor ; Davenport, Rev. B. F. Brabrook ; Marion,
Elihu Ives, Franklin Davis, A. C. Morse; Cascade, Arthur Thomas. Rev. O. L.
Harding and Brother Rynerson, being present, were invited to sit with the
council. The council examined very carefully the declarations of the faith and re-
ligious views of the new church and the covenant and rules which they had
adopted, and proceeded to recognize them as a regular Baptist church.
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This was a pioneer church in Jones county. The members were sturdy, ener-
getic men and women who took hold of the church work with an energy and zeal
which is rarely manifested at the present day. In a few years they built a neat
brick building, and for nearly fifty years a church was maintained and regular
services held. During this time Anamosa having railroad advantages, sprang up
and grew within four miles and the village of Fairview, gradually melted away.
Many of the members moved to other homes and those remaining united with the
Anamosa Baptist church. When the church was organized at Anamosa it drew
from the Fairview church some of its active workers. E. B. Alderman and his
wife, Lydia Alderman, were among these and were charter members of the Ana-
mosa church. Lewis W. Homan and Temperance Homan removed from Fairview
to Adams county, Iowa, in 1856. They were charter members of the First Bap-
tist church of that county. He was the last surviving of the charter members of
the Fairview Baptist church, dying at Corning, Iowa, on the 24th day of August,
1909. His wife, Temperance Homan, departed March 27, 1891. Mr. Homan
was over ninety-one years old at the time of his death. They had twelve children,
five of whom are now living, also forty- four grandchildren and fifty-one great
grandchildren.
Elder N. B. Homan was for fifteen years pastor of the Fairview church.
Twenty-five years ago he went to Kansas and labored earnestly in organizing
and building up Baptist churches until in the fullness of time he was taken. Dea-
con Timothy Soper and Mrs. Soper and Deacon A. A. Myrick and Mrs. Myrick
were for years the stay of this church. Deacon Myrick and Mrs. Soper are now
members of the Anamosa church. While the Fairview church has passed away
yet its existence was a great good to the community and did much to make bet-
ter and happier the lives of many of the earlier settlers of Fairview township
and the adjoining country.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ANAMOSA.
On Saturday, June 26, 1858, Edwin B. Alderman and Lydia A. Alderman and
Eliphet Kimball, Mary E. Kimball, Jane Trester, Mary Baker and Anganett
Swazee met at the house of Mr. Kimball in Anamosa and proceeded to organize
the first Baptist church of Anamosa. Elder Daniel Rowley, of the Iowa Baptist
State Convention, was present and acted as moderator of the meeting ; E. B. Al-
derman was elected church clerk. The church voted to have public services at the
courthouse at three o'clock p. m., on the next day, at which time they were to
be recognized as a regular Baptist church. The first pastor was Elder N. B. Ho-
man, who was also pastor of the church at Fairview. The following ministers
have been pastors of the church : N. B. Homan, 1858-1860; U. R. Walton, 1860-
1861; N. B. Homan. 1861-1868; M. C Kempsey, 1868-1869; M. T. Lamb, 1869-
1870; Robert Leslie, 1870-1871 ; C J. B. Jackson, 1872-1876; H. W. Thiele,
1876-1877; C. F. Tucker, 1877-1879; J. C. Burkholder, 1879-1882; C. L. Morrill,
1882-1884; C. C. Smith, 1885-1890; A. H. Ballard, 1890-1895; W. E. Glanville,
1895-1904; J. M. Deschamp, 1904-1907; E. K. Masterson, 1907-1908; John Heri-
tage, 1908 to the present time.
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The following have served as clerks of the church: E. B. Alderman, 1858-
1860; S. R. Moody, 1860-1864; C French, 1864-1865; J. R. Cook, 1865-1866;
H. C. Griffith, 1866-1868; I. H. Brasted, 1868-1870; Milton Remley, 1870-1874;
H. M. Remley, 1874-1887; Jennings Litzenburg, 1887-1889; H. M. Remley, 1889-
1896 ; I. H. Brasted, 1896 to the present time.
The church held prayer meetings and services at the home of the various
members and in the courthouse or other halls, where they could be accommodated,
until 1868, when they erected a substantial brick building forty by sixty feet with
a high ceiling and a bell tower. The building cost six thousand dallors and at the
time of dedication, Sunday, March i, 1868, all the remaining indebtedness was
paid. At the time of its erection it was the best church building in Anamosa or
Fairview township. It has been one of the rules of this church that it would not
go into debt, and from the time of its organization up to the present time, outside
of the deficiency of one or two hundred dollars in current running expenses,
there has been no indebtedness. This church has sent out a great many good mem-
bers and efficient workers to other churches. There have been since its organiza-
tion up to September i, 1909, five hundred and seventy-six members. The number
at the present time is one hundred and thirteen. About the year 1886, the church
built a substantial brick addition providing church parlors and Sunday-school
rooms. In 1905 the church was further improved by putting a furnace beneath
the audience room putting in a new sloping maple floor, new hardwood casings
to the windows, new pulpit and choir platform, new baptistry, a gallery, and
stained glass windows, and reseating the entire church with the most improved
seats. This improvement cost over three thousand dollars. The value of the
church property at the present time is about ten thousand dollars. The audience
room is exceedingly neat and beautiful. The church also owns a parsonage worth
about two thousand, five hundred dollars. The present officers of the church
are: pastor, Rev. John Heritage; deacons: Dr. H. W. Sigworth, C. T. Myrick,
I. H. Brasted, Henry Morey and John Barrett ; treasurer, B. E. Rhinehart ; clerk,
I. H. Brasted; trustees: A. H. Morey, C. H. Anderson and Alfred G. Remley.
Mrs. Lydia Alderman, now living at Riverside, California, is the only surviving
charter member.
The Sunday-school has the following officers and teachers: superintendent,
Mrs. John Heritage; assistant. Miss Nellie Hackett; secretary, Robert G. Rem-
ley; teachers: B. E. Rhinehart, Mrs. H. L. Haase, Mrs. I. H. Brasted, Nellie
Morey, Mr. H. L. Haase, Miss Ethel Scroggs, Mrs. Judson McCarn and H. M.
Remley. The Sunday-school was first organized in 1867. ^^^ ^^^t superintendent
was E. B. Alderman, who served three years. Milton Remley was then elected
and served three years; C. W. Coe then served three years; H. M. Remley served
three years. In 1879 John Stewart, the noted butter maker, was elected superin-
tendent and served for three years ; I. H. Brasted was elected and served about
the same length of time; C. T. Myrick was then elected and has been reelected
a good many times. Since then the following persons have been superintendent
in the order named ; A. E. Myrick, C. B. Hungerford, Fred B. Sigworth, A. L.
Remley, H. D. Myrick and the present superintendent. The school has always
been self-sustaining and has always had plenty of funds. Upon retiring from the
superintendency, H. M. Remley became the teacher of the old people's Bible class
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and has taught that class from that time to the present time, over thirty years. His
class now consists of eighteen members, with an average attendance of eleven
or twelve members. Four members of the class are over eighty years old and
the average age is over seventy years
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ANAMOSA.
About the year 1840, Rev. Thomas Emerson commenced special Christian
labor in what was known as "Big Woods," which included the whole of Fairview
township and also Greenfield and Rome townships, Jones county. His labors,
though brief, were attended with some success, and after his departure to Missouri,
Rev. Rankin secured the names of a few persons with a view to organizing
a Christian church. But finding the project beset with many difficulties he left it
unaccomplished. Soon after this, about the year 1844, Rev. E. Alden, Jr., suc-
ceeded in gathering and organizing a small Congregational church in Rome, in the
southern part of the county, which probably was the first Congregational church
organization in the county. Discordant elements caused its dissolution early in
1846. In the spring of that year Rev. Alfred Wright visited Big Woods as a
missionary, and in the September following removed to Anamosa, or to what was
then known as Lexington. He labored here to impress upon the scattered Chris-
tians the need of a church organization, and on the 14th of November, 1846,
Samuel Hillis and wife (parents of Newell Dwight Hillis, now of Henry Ward
Beecher's church, Brooklyn), Solomon Hester and wife, Mrs. Margaret Hester,
Sr., and Mrs. L. C. Wright met to consider the importance of such a step. After
prayer and due deliberation a Congregational organization was agreed upon
though all present were Presbyterians. Samuel Hillis was then elected deacon and
on the following Sabbath the articles of faith were adopted. Rev. Wright
continued his labors here until the autumn of 1853, ^ period of about seven and
a half years. His church then numbered eighty-two members, though scattered
over a considerable extent of country.
In 185 1 a frame house of worship was erected a little east of what was then
the business portion of Anamosa. The building is now used for a residence,
just in the angle of Main street, in the western part of town. This church edi-
fice was the first erected in the county. It was neatly painted white and comfort-
ably seated with solid oak pews. In the latter part of 1853 or early in 1854 Father
Wright removed to Quasqueton, in Buchanan county, Iowa.
In 1853 the name of the church was changed from the Big Woods church to
the "First Congregational Church of Anamosa." Mr. Wright was succeeded in
the spring of 1854 by Rev. E. O. Bennett, who remained here but six months.
Rev. H. W. Strong began his labors on January i, 1855, and on June i following,
Rev. S. P. LaDou commenced work here and remained one year.
December i, 1856, Rev. Samuel A. Benton entered upon the field and min-
istered to the church during a period of five years, at the close of which he left
and was appointed chaplain in the Fourteenth Iowa Volunteers, under Colonel
William T. Shaw. Mr. Benton served but six months when his health failed and
he returned to his home. During his last year as pastor, 1861, a commodious
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brick house of worship was erected where the postoffice building now stands on
the comer of Main and Booth streets.
June I, 1862, Rev. O. W. Merrill was called to the pastorate and continued his
labors four years as stated supply. On the 20th of June, 1866, he was installed
as settled pastor, and continued this relation until June, 1870, when, by his own
request and by advice of council he was dismissed to act as superintendent of
missions for Nebraska, a position to which he was called by the American Home
Missionary society. During his ministry a debt of over seven hundred dollars
was paid, the house seated at a cost of five hundred dollars, a spire erected and
a bell purchased at a cost of seven hundred dollars, an organ bought and the
house carpeted. From dependence on the Home Missionary society for support,
the church became self-sustaining. In the eight years of Mr. Merrill's ministry
eighty-five were added to the membership and the working ability of the church
was more than doubled, as was also its average Sabbath congregation.
In June, 1870, Rev. Wm. Patton was chosen to fill the pulpit and remained
three months. In 1871, Rev. R. M. Sawyer began his ministerial labors and re-
mained one year. ,
September i, 1872, Rev. J. B. Fiske entered on this pastorate, and after serv-
ing his people most effectively for sixteen years he resigned September i, 1888,
removing to Bonne Terre, Missouri, where he became the pastor of the Congre-
gational church of that place.
Rev. W. W. Willard was called April 25, 1889, to fill the pulpit, to begin
September ist, it being understood that his stay would be for only a short time.
Following the death of Mrs. J. B. Fiske, at Bonne Terre, a beautiful memor-
ial service was held in the church February 6, 1890, at which addresses were
made and appropriate resolutions adopted.
Rev. E. W. Beers followed Rev. Willard as pastor about the ist of October,
1889, and remained one year. Rev. W. R. Stewart commenced his labors as pas-
tor December 7, 1890, and remained about two years. Rev. S. F. Milliken en-
tered on the pastorate May i, 1893, and remained until March i, 1902, and then
accepted a call to Kingsley, Iowa.
Dr. J. H. McLaren was called December 11, 1902, and began his work eariy
in January following. The building of a new church was suggested soon after
Dr. McLaren entered upon his pastorate. At a prayer and business meeting held
May 28, 1903, the pastor stated that Mrs. E. P. Benton, of Minneapolis, a former
member of this church, as was her now deceased husband, would give half the
sum required for a new church, a statement received with profound gratitude by
all. The pastor and Messrs. H. H. McKinney, J. S. Condit, C. S. Millard and
Mrs. E. A. Osbom were appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions. Sep-
tember 3, 1903, a resolution was adopted authorizing the purchase from Mrs.
T. R. Ercanbrack of lots i and 2 and the north sixty feet of lot 3, comer of
First and Booth streets for five thousand dollars, and to sell the old church, the
cost of the new structure not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars.
Some time after this, Mr. E. M. Condit, traveling abroad with his wife, gave
assurance that he would help the enterprise, and later forwarded his check for
two thousand dollars, which was another cause for gratitude and praise to God.
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The building committee consisted of Dr. J. H. McLaren, J. S. Stacy, M. L.
HoIHster, C. S. Millard, A. J. Byerly and T. E. Booth. Mr. :\Iillard was made
treasurer and Mr. Booth secretary.
The purchase of the Ercanbrack property was completed and Mrs. Ercan-
brack generously donated two hundred and fifty dollars toward the new church.
Plans were accepted from J. H. Prescott and bids followed by several builders.
The award went to Anton Zwack, of Dubuque, for fourteen thousand, three hun-
dred dollars. March 21, 1904, the trustees were authorized to sell the old church
to George L. Schoonover for four thousand dollars, reserving the bell, seats, organ
and other furnishings, and it was sold accordingly.
April 7, 1904, Dr. McLaren having resigned, it was voted to extend a call to
Rev. A. O. Stevens, of Pontiac, Michigan, to become pastor, and later he was
added to the building committee. Following the sale of the old church, and before
it was turned over to Mr. Schoonover, a "last meeting" was held in the church
on the 1 2th of April, short addresses being made by T. E. Booth, J. S. Stacy,
J. H. Barnard, E. J. Wood, A. Heitchen, C. S. Millard, G. L. Yount and Rev.
A. O. Stevens.
A large number of the members of the church and congregation were present
and a service was enjoyed that will never be forgotten.
By courtesy of the city authorities, the congregation occupied the city hall
for some months and until the new church was ready for occupancy. The cor-
ner stone was laid December 15, 1903, with appropriate ceremonies, conducted by
Dr. McLaren, Others participating were Rev. W. E. Glanville, of the Baptist
church. Miss Bates, assisting at the Methodist Episcopal revival meetings, sang
a solo. Rev. J. Percival Hugget, of Cedar Rapids, delivered an interesting dis-
course, and Rev. L. L. Lockard, of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Rev.
DeWitt White of the Presbyterian church extended words of greeting.
September 30, 1904, the dedication recital, at which was given the first public
exhibition of a pipe organ in the history of the town, Mr. Kenneth E. Runkel, of
St. Paul, Minnesota, conducting the recital, assisted by Mrs. Harry W. Sig-
worth, soprano, and Mr. Dwight E. Cook, tenor.
On Sunday, October 20, 1904, the dedication of the church took place, the au-
dience room, both wings and the gallery being packed and aisles filled. The exer-
cises were opened by an organ prelude by Mr. Runkel, followed by the Doxology
and Lord's prayer, responsive reading and an original hymn written by Rev.
J. N. Davidson, of Dousman, Wisconsin, formerly a member of the church. T.
E. Booth, of the building committee, reported the contributions for the enterprise.
Mrs. E. P. Benton $11,500
E. M. Condit 2,000
Church Building Society 1,000
Old church property 4,000
Local subscriptions 4,869
$23,369
There was an indebtedness of only eighty-seven dollars and that and more
was quickly raised by a basket collection, Dr. T. O. Douglas, of Grinnell,
making an appropriate address. Rev. A. O. Stevens, the present pastor, then
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in happy words introduced Dr. McLaren, who preached an eloquent dedicatory
sermon, with theme, "Triumphant Zion," the sermon being published in full
in the Eureka.
March sth, 1905, Rev. Stevens resigned and on July 9th following Rev.
Qias. H. Beaver, of Fairmont, Neb., preached morning and evening and on the
17th a unanimous call was extended to him to enter on this pastorate, which
was accepted, and Mr. Beaver is still with us, doing a good work for the
spiritual life of the church and enlarging the congregation and Sunday school.
One year ago, under the care and direction of Mr. Beaver, the entire in-
terior of the church was beautifully decorated, and other repairs made at a
total cost of about three thousand, six hundred dollars, which included an en-
largement of the basement dining rooms, roof rebuilt and a new furnace in the
parsonage, with other repairs and furnishings of a valuable nature.
Because of these improvements, recognition services were held October 29th,
30th and November ist, with elaborate programs, musical and otherwise, in-
cluding a men's banquet under charge of the Men's club of the church, and
addresses by T. E. Booth, Richard Owen, Rev. M. A. Breed, of Monticello, Rev.
Wilson Denny, of Cedar Rapids, Rev. Charles A. Moore, of Davenport, and
Rev. Charles A. Beaver, the pastor. All these exercises were free and they
were greeted by large and appreciative audiences.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The First Presbyterian Church of Anamosa was organized September 20,
A. D. 1868, by a Committee of the Presbytery of Dubuque, appointed for that
purpose, consisting of Rev. James McKean and Rev. J. L. Wilson and Ruling
Elder S. F. Glenn. Those uniting in the organization were as follows : John
McKean, Nancy A. McKean, Mrs. Pamelia Yule and her two daughters, Arvilla
Yule and A. Yule, Mrs. J. H. Fisher and Mrs. D. C. Tice. John McKean was
duly elected ruling elder of the church, and installed according to the usages
of the Presbyterian church. The meeting was held in the Baptist church
edifice. Rev. Jerome Allen was present and, by request, preached in the morn-
ing: Rev. J. L. Wilson in the evening. Rev. Jerome Allen supplied the church
temporarily with preaching during the fall and following winter. The first
regular stated supply was Rev. Bloomfield Wall, a laborious and faithful min-
ister, who remained with the church for one year from August i, 1869. During
this year, the church grew considerably in numbers, worshipping in what was
then the courtroom, where is now (1879) Miller's photograph-rooms.
Rev. Wall having removed at the close of the first year to the southern
portion of the state, the church was left vacant and remained so until 1871,
when the church secured, in connection with the then Presbyterian church of
Wayne, the labors of Rev. J. Nesbitt Wilson for the three successive years. After
this time, up to the spring of 1878, the church, although now left destitute of
stated preaching, was supplied about once a month by Rev. H. L. Stanley, the able
and accomplished pastor at Wheatland, Iowa. During these years, the times
were hard, emigration was against the church, several of the most efficient
members removing, and death thinned the ranks by the loss of several of the
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most pious and devoted members — ^the beloved Mrs. Ditto, Mrs. Pamelia Yule
and the accomplished Capt. F. C. McKean being of the number. Notwith-
standing seemingly discouraging circumstance the members seemed generally
to cling with more tenacity to the faith so true to Christ and the principles of
representative republican church government, embraced in its order, as dis-
tinguished from absolute democracy on the one hand and the rule of a hierarchy
on the other.
A Sabbath school has always existed in connection with the church from
the first pastorate of Rev. Wall, and weekly prayer meetings upheld.
In the spring of 1878, having no house of worship, on invitation of the
citizens of Strawberry Hill, the place of worship was removed to Straw-
berry Hill schoolhouse, where services were held until the completion of the
church building, November 17, 1^78.
As a preparatory step to the erection of a church building on May 5, 1878,
articles of incorporation were adopted in due legal form, under the name and
style of *The First Presbyterian Church of Anamosa." They were signed and
acknowledged by the following persons : William T. Shaw, Joseph Wood, John
McKean, Albert Higby, B. F. Smith, Abraham Everett and Eugene Carr.
The first board of trustees were : John McKean, Joseph Wood, Albert Higby,
B. F. Smith and B. G. Yule, of whom Judge McKean was elected president and
Albert Higby, secretary, with Joseph Wood, treasurer. Col. William T. Shaw
had most generously donated to the church, for its use for building purposes,
one-half of a block of lots. The church at once prepared to erect a building.
The contract was let to Messrs. Parson & Foley, of Anamosa| on July i, 1878,
and the cornerstone laid shortly afterward by Rev. Daniel Russell. The
building was dedicated, free of debt, November 17, 1878, just four months
afterwards, complete and finished, which speaks well for the contractors, the
church and the generous hearted citizens who so liberally aided by their funds
and sympathy.
The building was of brick, twenty-eight by forty-eight feet, with ornate
tower ten by ten feet, on the northeast comer, about sixty feet high. The stone
work was of the finest Anamosa limestone, with which the building was elegantly
trimmed. The style of the architecture was Gothic. The grounds were fenced
and ornamented with walls and trees, tastefully arranged under the supervision
of Joseph Wood. The bricks were selected by B. F. Smith from his kilns on
Strawberry Hill.
This building which was situated on Strawberry Hill, now a part of the
city of Anamosa, was destroyed by fire in October, 1901. The fire being started
from a bonfire of leaves in cleaning up the church property. The wind blew the
burning leaves onto the roof and the dry shingles immediately caught fire and
destroyed the church.
In 1902 the resent stone structure situated on North Ford street was built,
the stone being furnished by James Lawrence and taken from his quarry. This
new church was dedicated on the third day of May, 1903.
Rev. Daniel Russell severed his connection as minister in 1886. The follow-
ing persons served the church as pastor since the very eflfective and conscien-
tious serving of Daniel Russell; William Grey; A. W. McConnell; D. Street,
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W. J. Bollman ; David Brown ; J. C. Orth ; DeWitt White and Charles M. Whetsel.
who is now the present pastor.
ST. mark's parish (PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL).
August 14, 1859, the eighth Sunday after Trinity, a parish was organized in
Anamosa, Jones county. Iowa, under the name of St. Mark's by Rev. Walter
F.Lloyd.
On Wednesday, March 15, i860, after morning prayer and sermon, the
corner stone of the church building was laid by Rev. Lloyd. Friday,
July 20, i860, the church was opened for divine worship, Rev. Lloyd
reading the service. The Rt. Rev. Henry W. Lee, bishop of the diocese, preached
the sermon on the occasion, and administered the sacred rite of confirmation and
was celebrant at the holy communion.
The following were elected vestrymen at the organization: C. W. Laing,
E. H. Sherman, A. H. Peaslee, J. S. Dimmitt, E. Blakeslee, Bedford Fisher,
William R. Locke, Matt Parrott and John J. Welsh.
The following have served as rectors of the parish: Revs. W. F.
Lloyd, John H. Eddy, Hale Townsend, Isaac Williams, William Campbell. Robert
Trewartha, Joseph I. Corbyn, Felix H. Pickworth and Charles H. Kues.
Rev. Pickworth, now chaplain at the reformatory, has the oversight of the parish
at this time pending the call of a rector.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
When Iowa was still a wilderness, the Methodists commenced promulgating
their doctrines, and the Iowa conference established what was known as the
Anamosa circuit in the year 1849, and Rev. Vail was sent to sow the good
seed. Mr. Vail was succeeded by Rev. Harvey Taylor in the fall of 1850. The
population of the circuit at that time was small, but a class of ten persons
was formed at Anamosa in the year 185 1, and in February of the same year a
church society was organized. For four or five years, the regular services of
the church were held in the courthouse. After that the public schoolhouse was
occupied for a time, and then the church edifice of the United Brethren. In the
year 1865, it was determined by the society to build a church of their own. The
necessary funds were subscribed, when a difficulty arose in regard to the loca-
tion of the church building, which resulted in a withdrawal of about a third
of the subscriptions and several of the members. Those who withdrew formed
themselves into a society called the Protestant Methodist church, which organ-
ization lasted but for a short time, dying for lack of support.
The building of the church progressed, however, and at the time of the
dedication, in December, 1865, there was a debt of two thousand, five hundred
dollars. This debt has since been paid, and the society now owns its own par-
sonage, and is in a very prosperous condition, having a debt of less than two
hundred dollars. The society owned other landed estate to the amount of about
eight hundred dollars.
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The first money raised for building a church was in 185 1, but the money
was finally expended in building a parsonage. A debt of some two hundred
dollars was incurred, which ran along for a number of years, when the society
was obliged to sell the parsonage. After paying the debts of the society, a bal-
ance of about one hundred dollars remained, and the old Congregational church
was purchased, which served as a place of worship until the old brick edifice
was erected. The first class organized, as mentioned "bef ore, in 1851, consisted
of ten persons. The first church record having been lost or destroyed, the his-
torian is under obligations to Mr. D. Cunningham for the names, taking some
from history of 1879 which are as follows ; Oliver Lockwood and Rebecca his
wife; Mr. Sedlers, C. L. D. Crockwell and Mary, his wife; Mary Bass; D. Cun-
ningham and Sarah, his wife and Mr. Vail and wife. From this beginning the
church has grown, through many very severe trials, to its present proportions,
having a membership at this time, August 1879, of two hundred and thirty
members, with a large and prosperous Sabbath school.
The following are the names of the pastors who have ministered to the spir-
itual wants of the society : Rev. Vail, Harvey Taylor, A. B. Kendig, A. Carey,
G. H. Jamison, Otis Daggett, George Larkins, Isaac Soule, A. Bronson,
F. C. Wolfe, A. Hill, A. H. Ames, U. Eberhart, Wm. Lease, J. B. Casebeer,
S. H. Church, John Bowman and J. M. Leonard.
Rev. J. N. Leonard served his charge with great success until July, 1880,
when he went to Europe to spend two years in study and investigation. Dur-
ing this time the old parsonage on North Ford street was sold and after paying
the debts against the society the balance of three hundred and thirty dollars was
left in the hands of the trustees. In 1880, F. B. Sharington was transferred from
Fort Scott, Kansas, to fill out the unexpired term of Rev. Leonard. He remained
until October i, 1881. During his pastorate the present parsonage was built on
Booth street, at a cost of two thousand dollars. In 1881 J. G. VanNess
was appointed to succeed Rev. Sharington and served his full term of three years.
In 1884, F- E. Brush was appointed to this charge and continued for a period
of three years. In 1887, R^v. A. C. Manwell took charge and served two years.
Since this time the following pastors have served the Anamosa charge : in 1892,
L. N. McKee; 1895, Dr. T. W. Heal; 1897, L. L. Lochard; 1905, Rev. Dean C.
Dutton ; 1907, Dr. H. White, who is the present pastor.
There had been a great deal of talk and planning for the building of a new
church and in 1905, when Rev. D. C. Dutton was appointed to this charge he
immediately set out to build a new church that would be a credit to the society
and the community. He organized his forces and soon had a new church build-
ing planned, erected and dedicated at a cost of about thirty thousand dollars.
This new church building was erected at the comer of Ford and First streets,
just west of the Congregational church. It is a fine well built and imposing build-
ing with all the modern improvements, with separate Sunday-schjol rooms
and a basement fitted up for social entertainments. In addition to the erection
of this magnificent church Rev. Dutton raised money and improved the par-
sonage at the expense of about four hundred dollars. The new church was
dedicated June i, 1907, and Rev. Dutton resigned June i, 1908. The church is
in a prosperous condition and has a membership of three hundred and fifty. The
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attendance is good and the zeal and interest of the members is to be commended.
PROTESTANT METHODIST CHURCH.
This church seceded from the Methodist Episcopal Church at Anamosa, in
1865, in consequence of a dispute in regard to the site of the new M. E. church
and other things, among them a feeling brought on by the war. Seven mem-
bers, who were the leaders in the organization, bought the old M. E. church build-
ing, and in it they worshiped. These members were Noah Hutchins, James L.
Brown, John S. Belknap, Burrill Huggins, Joseph Moore, Samuel Brunskill
and L. Belknap. They continued to hold services, although never incorporated
a society, until about the ist of September, 1871, when they disbanded. The
ministers who' preached during their continuance were : James Abbott and W. C.
Beardsley.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
(For Catholic church, see elsewhere in history under the title of The Cath-
olic Churches in Jones County.
ANAMOSA BANKS.
NILES & WATTERS SAVINGS BANK.
In the year 1871, a charter was granted from the United States to the
First National Bank of Anamosa, Iowa, with a capital stock in the sum of fifty
thousand dollars. The officers were: president, H. C. Metcalf ; vice president,
Dr. E. Blakeslee; cashier, T. W. Shapley. There were nine directors elected as
follows: H. C. Metcalf, C. L. Niles, T. W. Shapley, John Watters, George
Watters, Dr. E. Blakeslee, John McKean, J. C. Dietz and N. S. Noble.
In February, 1879, ^^^ charter for the First National Bank was surrendered
and H. C. Metcalf continued the business as a private bank under the name of
H. C. Metcalf, banker. In the fall of 1880, C. L. Niles, John Watters and George
Watters purchased the bank of H. C. Metcalf and continued the same as a private
bank under the name of Niles & Watters, bankers, until February 15, 1905,
when the Niles & Watters Savings Bank was incorporated. The capital stock
is fifty thousand dollars and surplus and undivided profits thirty-five thousand
dollars.
The present officers are : president, C. L. Niles ; vice president, T. W. Shapley ;
assistant vice president, C. L. Niles; cashier, T. E. Watters; assistant cashier,
F. J. Cunningham. Directors: C. L. Niles, T. W. Shapley, John McDonald.
George Watters, Clifford L. Niles, J. E. Remley and Dr. T. C. Gorman.
The deposits on November 9th, 1885, were $63,641.16; November 9th, 1895,
$206,979.67; November 1905, $538,849.68; August loth, 1909, $605,272.92.
THE ANAMOSA NATIONAL BANK.
On the 26th day of December, 1873, Wm. T. Shaw, Lawrence Schoonover,
James A. Bell and Edgar M. Condit formed a co-partnership for the purpose of
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conducting a general banking business in Anamosa, Iowa, under the firm name
of Shaw, Schoonover & Company. The capital invested at that time was
twenty thousand dollars, divided equally among the four partners. In the early
eighties, Mr. Bell retired, and shortly afterwards Mr. Condit moved to Chicago,
and disposed of his interest alscr. In both cases the retiring partner sold his
share to the other partners, the firm being known until 1894 as Shaw & Shoon-
over.
In the year 1894, Col. Shaw retired, and the business was operated by Mr.
Schoonover individually until January, 1897, when it was consolidated with the
Anamosa National Bank, both Mr. Shaw and Mr. Schoonover becoming stock-
holders and directors of that institution. The Anamosa National Bank had been
incorporated in 1892 by Chas. H. Lull, Jno. Z. Lull, W. N. Dearborn, C. S. Mil-
lard and others, and, upon the consolidation with the banking house of
L. Schoonover, Mr. C. H. Lull retired from the presidency, that office being
filled by Mr. Schoonover from 1897 until his death in 1907.
In January, 1904, C. S. Millard sold all his interest in the bank to Geo.
L. Schoonover, at the same time resigning the cashiership. The latter was then
elected to the position, and remained as cashier until February, 1907, when, upon
the death of Lawrence Schoonover, he was elected to the presidency, remaining
in that position to the present time.
Park Chamberlain, who had become associated with the bank in January,
1907, as vice president, was elected cashier in March of the same year, to succeed
Geo. L. Schoonover. Mr. Joseph N. Ramsey has been the assistant cashier of
the bank since July, 1904.
citizen's savings bank.
The Citizen's Savings Bank of Anamosa, Iowa, was incorporated on the
8th day of November, 1906, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars and commenced
business on the 14th day of March, 1907.
The first officers were: president, W. A. Cunningham; vice president, Wm.
Thomas ; cashier, E. K. Ray. First Directors : W. A. Cunningham, Wm. Thomas,
C. H. Anderson, H. Helberg, Sr., A. G. Hejinian, Wm. R. Shaw and E. K. Ray.
The present officers are: president, W. A. Cunningham; vice president,
Wm. Thomas; cashier, E. K. Ray, assistant cashier, W. F. Helberg. Present
directors: W. A. Cunningham, A. G. Hejinian, F. G. Ray, J. A. Belknap, E. K.
Ray and W. F. Helberg.
The Citizen's Savings Bank purchased the building known as the C. M.
Brown building, which was remodeled from top to bottom, and especially
equipped for banking rooms with offices on the second floor, at an expense ot fif-
teen thousand dollars.
Its deposits on August loth, 1909, were one hundred and two thousand,
eighty-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents.
(A more detailed statement of the condition of the Anamosa Banks, will
be found on another page under the title of "Banks and Banking.")
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AN OLD LANDMARK TAKEN DOWN.
The following sketch regarding a historic structure of Anamosa, was taken
from the Anamosa Eureka, published June 17, 1909.
"The two story frame building down tQwn commonly known as the 'bee-
hive* is being dismantled. That structure was moved to its Main street location
not far from the year 1857. J. H. Fisher & Son first erected it at 'Fisherville/
about twenty rods east of the stone mill on the Buffalo, the mill being built in
about 1 85 1, and was operated by them when the big store was put up a year or
so later. They carried on an immense business for years, not only in general mer-
chandising but in mill products and stock feeding, all shipments going to
Dubuque or Muscatine. After the building of the Dubuque Southwestern
the business of the western part of town began to move eastward, and in a few
years Fisher & Son hauled their store building to its present location and con-
tinued in business through the early sixties. Later they failed, unable to
recover from the terrible financial stress of 1857-8-9 and '60, and the building
was occupied by others for mercantile purpose for several years. Finally it
became the property of Mrs. Purcell, in connection with the building she has
resided in for a long time, this latter having been occupied in the later fifties and
early sixties as a storeroom by Frank Coates, who was afterwards a success-
ful business man in Dubuque. For many years the 'beehive,' or a part of it,
has been used by tenants for residence rooms, but finally it was abandoned, Mrs.
Purcell preferring to take it down and remove it entirely, in order to better
protect and repair her present residence. The 'beehive' was more than fifty
years old and has had a wonderful history."
A HISTORICAL BALL GAME.
The great American game of base ball has always been one of the most
prominent local sports in Anamosa, and Monticello has always been a worthy
rival. The first game of note ever played in Jones county was played between
Anamosa and Monticello in September, 1867, as is shown by the following clip-
ping from the Anamosa Eureka under date of February 4, 1909, reviewing
that athletic struggle :
"According to previous announcement the contest for the championship of
the county between the first nine of the Athletics of Anamosa and the first nine
of the Hesperians of Monticello came oflF on the fair grounds on Thursday,
September, — 1867. Notwithstanding the fact that the game was new in this
section, there was a large crowd on the ground to witness the play, and the inter-
est continued to the end. An umpire, Mr. Bingham, was chosen, and C. M.
Failing, for the Athletics, and Col. Duer, for the Hesperians were selected as
scorers. The game was called at 10:30 and the Hesperians went to bat. The
playing at the beginning was marked by extreme caution, each side seeming to
be warily feeling the strength of the other. Though there are only two or three
days' difference between the ages of the two organizations, it was evident, at an
early stage of the contest, that the Athletics had an advantage over their oppo-
nents. This was plainly evinced in the splendid batting done by the Athletics.
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The following is the score as it always appeared in the newspapers at that time :
Runs Outs • Runs Outs
E. G. Stanley, c 17 3 H. Green, c 3 3
Milton Remley, p 17 4 E. N. Howard, p o 6
M. B. C. True, rf 18 i A. Bowman, rf i 4
T. E. Booth, lb 16 3 C Dewey, ib 4 2
Ezra Keeler, ss 17 3 G. H. Scott, ss 3 2
Geo. Gavitt, 2b 16 4 C. Giles, 2b 2 4
J. H. Williams, 3b 16 2 — Beckwith, 3b o 4
I. H. Brasted, If 14 4 Thos. Cutler, If •. . 3 o
P. A. Tietsort, cf 15 3 P. Periolat, cf 4 2
146 27 20 27
Innings.
Athletics 5 8 27 5 30 23 3 28 22 — 146
Hesperians 4 2 2 o 2 3 3 4 o — 20
Left on bases — Athletics, 10 ; Hesperians, 4.
Fouls caught — Athletics, 9 ; Hesperians, 10.
Struck out — Athletics, o ; Hesperians, 7.
Home runs — Athletics, 4 — Remley, 2 ; Booth, i ; Brasted, i ; Hesperians, o.
Put out on bases, by Athletics, ist, 6; 2d base, o; 3rd base, 3; home base,
18. By Hesperians, ist base, 7; 2d base, 3; 3d base, 2; hom« base, 15.
"At the close of the game at 2 p. m. three and a half hours long, the Hes-
perians though vanquished were in good humor and gave three cheers for the
Anamosa club. The compliment was heartily returned in favor of the Hes-
perians who conducted themselves as gentlemen throughout. Three cheers
were then given for the umpire and scorers and on invitation of the Athletics
the Hesperians and all connected with the game proceeded to the dinner table
where a most bountiful collation was soon in process of rapid disposal before the
sharpened appetites of the players. The best of feeling prevailed and the
Hesperians evinced that they were possessed of the quality of gentlemanly
courtesy and honor — ^virtues far more difficult of realization in defeat than in
victory.
"We may add that when base ball was first introduced as a national game,
the rules were entirely different from those now in vogue. The pitcher, for
instance, actually pitched the ball, or tossed it, the movement of his arm being
that of the pendulum, and the catcher took the ball on the bound, except perhaps
on the third strike. A foul ball anywhere if taken on the first bound was out.
The batter was obliged to call for a *high ball,' between the hip and shoulder,
or a 4ow ball,' between the hip and the ankle. The enormous score of 146
to 20 resulted largely from the fact that the Athletics far surpassed their oppo-
nents as batters, and we well remember that after the Athletics had made the
round of the diamond from 14 to 18 times each, and the Hesperians had chased
the balls for three and a half hours, we were a mighty tired lot.
"Concerning the Athletics w^e may add that Mr. E. G. Stanley, the catcher,
is a resident of Cedar Rapids and is in the insurance business; Milton Remley,
the pitcher, resides in Iowa City, was Attorney General of Iowa and is still
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one of the most prominent attorneys of the state; M. B. C. True, right fielder
was a resident of Nebraska the last we knew of him and has been in newspaper
business and school work; T. E. Booth, first baseman, is still holding down the
first base in the Eureka office; Ezra Keeler, short stop, has practiced law in
Denver many years ; George Gavitt, 2d baseman, was killed on a railroad many
years ago; Jas. H. Williams, 3d baseman, played ball with as much love and
agility as a boy until long after his hair was white. He has been dead many
years; I. H. Brasted, left fielder, was in the mercantile business for forty years
and is now deputy county treasurer ; P. A. Tietsort, center fielder, left Anamosa
many years ago and we know nothing of his whereabouts.
"Of the Hesperians we can say very little. E. N. Howard, pitcher, was an
employe in the Monticello Express office for a long term of years, and early
in its history was half owner with Mr. G. H. Scott, short stop, and died some
months ago; C. Dewey, ist baseman, if we mistake not, became the accomplished
leader of a JMonticello band and is in Kansas; P. Periolat, center fielder, is in
Chicago. Col. Duer, the scorer, is dead and Mr. Failing, scorer for the Athletics,
died several years ago in Duluth in the home of an adopted daughter."
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Anamosa's great fire of February 14, 1875, in which twelve thousand dollars
worth of property was destroyed convinced the people of the necessity of
organizing a fire department and on July 21, 1875, the City Council passed
an ordinance authorizing the formation of a fire department. At a meet-
ing of the citizens on the third day of August, 1875, the Anamosa Fire Depart-
ment was organized.
The fire department consists of Deluge Hose Company No. i. Rescue Hose
Company No. 2 and Weir Hook & Ladder Company. Each department has its
separate officers in addition to the general officers of the fire department.
The first officers of the Anamosa Fire Company were : J. H. Williams, chief
engineer; E. M. Harvey, first assistant; Geo. L. Yount, second assistant.
The following have been the chiefs since its organization : James H. Williams,
W. A. Cunningham, John I. VanNess, T. E. Watters, John D. Cudworth, R. E.
Giltrap, E. M. Harvey.
The present officers are as follows: R. Giltrap, chief; L. G. Fisher, first
assistant; Henry Dorgeloh, second assistant; A. S. Knapp, secretary.
DELUGE HOSE COMPANY NUMBER ONE.
The first officers were: John G. Cudworth, foreman; L. G. Clark, assistant;
G. S. Peet, assistant ; S. I. Williams, secretary ; Chas. Carter, treasurer. Nimibcr
of members twenty-two.
The officers for 1909 are: E. McKinstry, foreman; Ed. Harvey, first assist-
ant: T. B. nines, second assistant; A. S. Knapp, secretary. Number of mem-
bers twenty-six.
The list of members are : E. McKinstry, Ed. Beam, Ed. Harvey, A. S. Knapp,
T. B. Hines, Benj. E. Harrison, John F. Berkhart, Ray Powers, Fred Althen,
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Chauncy Miller, Amos Appleby, Ralph Simmons, Ora Appleby, Henry Sampica,
Harry Alspaugh, Sam Overfield, Frank Beam, I. P. Minehart, Addis Bagley,
Harry Sutton, Wm. Herbst, Qias. Zimmers, Henry Cgnrad, Wm. McCarty,
Earl Yount, Harry Johnson.
RESCUE HOSE COMPANY NUMBER TWO.
The first officers were: John I. VanNess, foreman; W. J. Pavey, assistant;
E. M. Stickney, secretary and treasurer. Number of members twenty-two.
The officers for 1909 are : John Dorgeloh, foreman ; Cleve Giltrap, assistant ;
Albert Qark, secretary. Niunber of members twenty-six.
List of members are: John Dorgeloh, Cleve Giltrap, Albert Clark, M. Hines,
Ed. Snyder, B. McLaughlin, F. Mutsch, A. Stewart, Geo. Walker, N. Schwirtz,
Harry Clarke, Jno. Goodman, M. Fay, Earl Miller, Wm. F. Glick, S. T.
McLaughlin, Wm. Leach, R. Minehart, F. Benedom, Earl Boyer.
WEIR HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY.
First officers were : L. C. Aldridge, foreman ; Frank Fisher, assistant ; B. Dott,
secretary and treasurer. Number of members thirty-five.
Present officers : F. Richmond, foreman; N. Little, first assistant; P. E. Lowe,
second assistant; J. F. Fisher, secretary; C. H. Mellecher, treasurer. Number
of members twenty-three.
List of members : F. Richmond, Nat Little, J. F. Fisher, D. N. Perkins, C. H.
Mellecher, A. E. Walton, A. Zimmerman, Preston Kramar, J. H. Sherman,
R, Hendricksen, P. E. Lowe, S. A. Mittan, Jas. M. Conway, Neil Conway, E. A.
Fisher, C. H. Hastings, Dan Beam, Armour Gould, Guy Cartano, Chas. Beaver,
J. H. Chadwick, W. J. Fisher, Leigh Pearson.
For a number of years Anamosa has had one of the best equipped and best
drilled fire companies in the state and at several state tournaments secured marked
recognition.
ANAMOSA FIRES.
The biggest fire that Anamosa ever had occurred on the fourteenth day of
February, 1875, ^^^ destroyed twelve thousand dollars worth of property and
is described as follows :
The fourteenth day of February, 1875, was Sunday. In the morning, at
1:30, wild cries of "Fire! Fire!*' broke upon the stillness of the night, the Con-
gregation bell reechoed the dreadful alarm, and in a few minutes hundreds of
citizens were rushing in the direction of the lurid light of roaring and crackling
flames bursting out of what was formely known as the old "Courthouse building."
occupied by A. N. Dennison, dealer in boots and shoes, and Emory Perfect, gro-
cery dealer. There was only a slight breeze from the northwest, but the head-
way which the fire had attained and the cumbustible nature of the wooden build-
ings filling the space between the Union Block, comer of Main and Ford streets,
on the west, and Frank Fisher's block, at the foot of Booth street, on the east,
rendered impossible for the citizens to avail anything against the devouring
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flames. A few tools were snatched from the work-shop, by way of the back
door. Loss on the building, one thousand dollars, insured for five hundred dol-
lars ; loss on stock, threfe thousand dollars, insured for one thousand dollars. Mr.
Dennison had added stock to the amount of eight hundred dollars, only the week
before. A new safe, containing about five hundred dollars in greenbacks and
Mr. Dennison's account books, was badly damaged, but the money and books
were found all right the next day. A fine line of samples belonging to W. E.
Moss, of Balch & Co., boot and shoe dealers, Lyons, valued at four hundred
dollars had been left in Mr. Dennison's store and was destroyed. W. L. Story
also lost tools to the amount of ten dollars.
Four barrels of kerosene oil and a lot of boxes were hurriedly removed
from the back room of Emory Perfect's grocery, but nothing else was saved. Loss
on stock, one thousand, four hundred dollars, insured for one thousand dollars.
The building was the property of Col. W. T. Shaw, was valued at one thousand,
two hundred dollars and was an entire loss.
The next building on the east belonged to C. L. Holcomb, and was occupied
by A. E. Parady, boot and shoe maker. Mr. Parady lost nearly everything. Value
of building five hundred dollars. Mr. Parady's loss was three hundred dollars.
Mr. Holcomb was also the owner of the adjoining building, occupied by D. H.
Kelly, as a barber-shop. Los3 on building, three hundred dollars. Mr. Kelly's
fixtures were nearly all saved, and his loss was but small.
Next came the post-office building, owned by B. L. Matson. Lew Kinert,
the clerk, was sleeping in the office, and by the reason of this fact the valuables
were saved. Mr. Coe, the post-master, lost about fifty dollars. The building
was valued at six hundred dollars, and insured for four hundred dollars. Messrs.
G. W. Strode & Son, jewelers, in post-office building, lost one hundred and
twenty-five dollars, mostly in tools.
Still the flames swept onward, and A. H. Sherman's harness shop went next.
His stock and tools were saved with a loss of about seventy-five dollars. The
building was owned by H. C. Metcalf , and valued at eight hundred dollars ; no
insurance.
J. Rhodes, the confectioner, was the next victim. He had recently repaired
his building and placed therein a new stock of confectionery, canned goods, gro-
ceries, etc. The goods were removed, but not without damage. Mr. Rhodes'
loss on building and contents reached one thousand dollars. In the second story
lived Mrs. Cause and daughter. A piano, in being carried down, fell and was
badly damaged. Loss on piano and household eflfects estimated at one thousand
dollars. Mr. Rhodes' building was razed to the ground, in the hope of stopping
the course of the scorching flame; but this seemed hopeless, and it was finally
decided that the next building, belonging to Joseph Moore, must also come down,
as it abutted against Fank Fisher's brick block, and there was danger anticipated
from the heat and flames breaking and entering the glass front. But the fire
had been raging two hours or more, and the masses of snow in the rear and in
the adjacent gutter on Main street were rapidly melting and afforded consid-
erable water. Water was dashed on by lines of men in front and rear, and
finally the flames were under control. Mr. Moore's building was scorched some,
and otherwise damaged to the amount of four hundred dollars, before the
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onward rnarch of the flames could be checked. In this building was the law
office of King & Dietz, but their books, etc., were removed with but small damage.
In the second story resided Mrs. S. Thomas and a little daughter, the former
being confined to her room by sickness. They were safely transferred to other
quarters, and their household goods saved with but little damage. Slingerland
& Son, painters, occupied a room in this building, and suffered a small loss.
R. A. Markham, dealer in sewing machines, and Markham & Burgess, dealers
in organs, etc., suffered a small loss by the fire. Mr. A. Heitchen also suffered a
loss of about seventy-five dollars. The total loss by the conflagration was twelve
thousand dollars. Total insurance, two thousand, nine houndred dollars. The
origin of the fire was unknown.
August IT, 1896, Prison fire. The fire department was called out at 7:55
on the night of August 11, 1896, by a fire at the State Penitentiary and when
the company arrived at 8 : 00 o clock the fire was under great headway. The
fire was in the frame kitchen and dining-room and rapidly got under headway and
practically burned down. The fire department assisted until 12:00 a. m., and
did a great service in protecting the surrounding property and retarding the fire.
October 26, 1901. At 10: 20 a. m., October 26, 1901, the Presbyterian church
on Strawberry Hill, caught fire from sparks and burning leaves falling on the dry
shingle roof from a bonfire of burning leaves around the church. The fire
totally destroyed the church. Insurance, eight hundred dollars.
December 7, 1901. On this date the house of the sheriff adjoining the County
Jail, caught fire from a chimney and did considerable damage.
January 28, 1902. At 8:30 o'clock the Prospect Park Sanitarium caught
fire from sparks falling on the roof at the north end of the building and immedi-
ately gaining headway. All patients in the building were carried to private homes
and taken care of. The large building was rapidly damaged, the second story
being practically ruined. It was a very cold morning, the temperature being
ten degrees below zero, and it was with great difficulty and danger the firemen
could work. It was necessary for the firemen to watch the fire until 4:00
o'clock p. m.
March 22, 1902. The American Cooperage Butter Tub Factory situated inside
of the penitentiary walls caught fire and was totally destroyed. The origin of
the fire is unknown and great amount of damage was done.
April 12, 1902. At I :oo o'clock p. m. on this date, Belknap Bros. Implement
Store & Plant situated in the Huggins building on north Ford street caught on
fire from an unknown origin and much damage done.
November 30, 1902. On Sunday November 30, 1902, at 2:00 o'clock p. m.,
the fire department of Anamosa was called together to assist the fire department
of Monticello, Iowa, in a very bad and dangerous fire, situated in Eastwood &
Chase Hardware Store. The fire was so dangerous and threatening that the
town of Monticello was in danger and a special freight train was secured trans-
porting the Anamosa fire department to Monticello. The Anamosa boys did
great service and materially aided in putting out the fire and received the thanks
of the Monticello community. The Monticello people treated the firemen splen-
didly and quoting from the records of the fire department it says : "The company
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was furnished with food and drink while fighting the fire and after the fire
was gotten under control supper was served for the company."
April 2, 1907. At 2:15 p. m. on said date the old foundry on Strawberry
Hill was burned to the ground and ruined. It was with difficulty that the
fire department saved the neighboring buildings.
November 20, 1908. On this date the department received a call from Amber,
Iowa, for assistance, the town being in danger of destruction. The Chicago &
Northwestern Railway Company furnished a passenger train taking the fire
boys to Amber, where they assisted in putting out the fire and saving the adjoin-
ing property. The fire started in the building of Nathan Steckel, who was
burned to death.
ANAMOSA AND THE PRESS.
The first news sheet issued in Jones County was called the Anamosa News,
started by William Haddock in February, 1852. He purchased an old press
and type in Wisconsin, paying therefor three hundred dollars. In 1856 he sold
the aflfair to Nathan G. Sales, who conducted the sheet in such a manner as to
pique the republicans of Anamosa and surrounding country; whereupon, some
of the more vengeful and enterprising spirits determined to have an organ of
their own. John E. Lovejoy, of Scotch Grove township, brother of Owen
Lovejoy, being a practical printer, talked of selling his farm and starting a
paper. It was likewise one of the ambitions of C. L. D. Crockwell to be the pro-
prietor of a journal. They entered into partnership, Lovejoy making out a list
of types and machinery needed, and sending to Cincinnati for the same. Crock-
well became security for the payment of the purchase money.
The first issue of the paper came out in August, 1856. After three issues,
Lovejoy, not enjoying the hardships and labor connected with journalism of the
border, and owing to sickness in his family, returned to his farm, leaving the
entire aflFair in Crockwell's hands. The latter was a druggist, and had but little
time or inclination to devote to editorial writing and other journalistic duties.
He therefore asked Mr. Edmund Booth to contribute editorials to the young
enterprise which he did for some months. Matt Parrott, afterward state binder
and publisher of the Iowa State Reporter at Waterloo, bought an interest in the
paper in January, 1858. May 3d of the same year, found the journal which
was called The Eureka, under the ownership of Crockwell, Parrott & B